Make IE and FireFox go faster than ever

Make IE and FireFox go faster than ever

FireFox is cool - but it's *very* slow. So is IE.
There are ways to make both of them run faster, fortunately.
If you want to make IE go faster - Go here.
If you want to make FireFox go faster, follow these steps:
Type "about:config" into the address bar and hit return. Scroll down and look for the following entries: network.http.pipelining network.http.proxy.pipelining network.http.pipelining.maxrequests Normally the browser will make one request to a web page at a time. When you enable pipelining it will make several at once, which really speeds up page loading.
Alter the entries as follows:
Set "network.http.pipelining" to "true"
Set "network.http.proxy.pipelining" to "true"
Set "network.http.pipelining.maxrequests" to some number like 30. This means it will make 30 requests at once. .
Lastly right-click anywhere and select New-> Integer. Name it "nglayout.initialpaint.delay" and set its value to "0".
This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it receives. If you're using a broadband connection you'll load pages MUCH faster now!
[found here with terrible formatting, so I reqrote it more clearly)