Speed Firefox Way The Heck Up

Yet another reason to love Firefox – you can greatly speed its rendering and downloading speeds, particularly if you’re blessed with a broadband connection.
Here’s the meat of the article:

1.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.
2. 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 [8]. This means it will make [8] requests at once.
3. 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!

I’ve tried it out at work and it’s noticeably faster, and this “hack” should work for all versions of Firefox, regardless of operating system, meaning that Mac, Windows and *NIX users all can benefit from this.
UPDATE: I’ve edited the number of pipelining requests to 8 (from the original 30) as per advice on the original thread on Forever Geek. 30 is just plain disrespectful to server operators, so please set it to something saner, such as 8.