This was going around a while ago, and I saved these URLs in a draft, but never got around to posting about it. I’m in a hurry and don’t have time to go into detail right now so here are the URLs for now. I’ll edit this later and say something a little more useful.

http://devnulled.com/archives/2004/12/how_to_make_firefox_faster.php

Not related to faster browsing: http://gregs.tcias.co.uk/blog/italicise_your_unread_firefox_tabs_and_other_bits.cfm