I suppose everyone that’s anyone has blogged about Firefox, so I’m probably late to the party. The thing is, it’s taken me a while to get my act together, upgrade the work PC as well as the home one, synchronise my bookmarks, and upgrade my favourite theme to the new, 1.0 compliant versions.
That said, I love it. If you make a few changes to the default network config (it seems to be tuned for a dialup user) by starting a new tab (ctrl-t) or window (ctrl-n) and entering a URL of ‘about:config’ you can tweak the number of connections allowed to be more suitable to a broadband connection. This is what I did to speed things up for my 1mb BT ADSL connection
Set the value of network.http.pipelining boolean “true”
Set the value of network.http.pipelining.maxrequests integer 100
Set the value of network.http.proxy.pipelining boolean “true”
network.http.max-connections integer 60
network.http.max-connections-per-server integer 32
network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy integer 16
network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server integer 8
I did see reference to another setting that might apply to the 1.0 release or not (it played a part in the betas, so maybe worth setting) and that’s running the about:config thing again, creating an integer value and call it
nglayout.initialpaint.delay
then set the value to 0 (that’s zero, not ‘oh’, but you knew that, didn’t you 
)
The whole thing is a bit of voodoo – nothings proven yet, but my personal experience is that this browser flies. I’ve probably got a steep learning curve to get through on the plugin front, but I’ll take that as it comes.
Mplayer plays everything I have, given a bit of a kick.
