It is possible to increase the speed of the browser by using pipelining. You need to go to your Mozilla Firefox profile. In Windows 2000/XP it is here C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Application Data\Phoenix . If you click on -> Profiles -> default -> -> ******.slt -> you are in your profile.

Create user.js if it is not already created (you can use notepad to create .txt file and then later rename it to user.js)
Edit the user.js file
Insert this:

// Enable pipelining:
user_pref("network.http.pipelining", true);
user_pref("network.http.proxy.pipelining", true);
user_pref("network.http.pipelining.maxrequests", 100);

Notice if your browser gets any quicker. I have read that pipelining can cause troubles on certain sites. But I have never noticed any problems and I have also read threads at MozillaZine that people use it without any problems. If you don't think your Firefox gets any quicker you can easily delete the lines in your user.js that you have created.

Update I have learned from the comments that you can't simply edit the user.js to remove the changes you have done about pipelining. You can type about:config in the address bar -> filter the word network -> notice the bold entries (here you have done changes) -> right click these entries

user_pref("network.http.pipelining", true);
user_pref("network.http.proxy.pipelining", true);
user_pref("network.http.pipelining.maxrequests", 100);

and reset.

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