I found this link at sitepoint today, it really helps!

http://forevergeek.com/open_source/make_firefox_faster.php

wow... i didn't know about the last one. i'll have to give it a whirl.

Affirmative, it works! There's an interesting discussion about the tweaks too over there.

I read through those ... best to set the network.http.pipelining.maxrequests to 6-8 because Firefox counts anything over 8 as 8 anyway.