Post your results for this:
http://www.numion.com/Stopwatch/start.h ... fchaos.com
with various browsers. It's the slowest loading site I know, and my results are:
IE6/Win 2.6 seconds (First load)
Fx0.8/Win 3.2 seconds (First load)
IE6/Win 0.6 seconds (Refresh)
Fx0.8/Win 4.6 seconds (Refresh - surely this cant be right?)
I'm using an AMD 2400+ and:
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user_pref("content.interrupt.parsing", true);
user_pref("content.max.tokenizing.time", 2250000);
user_pref("content.maxtextrun", 8191);
user_pref("content.notify.backoffcount", 5);
user_pref("content.notify.interval", 750000);
user_pref("content.notify.ontimer", true);
user_pref("content.switch.threshold", 750000);
user_pref("nglayout.initialpaint.delay", 500);
user_pref("network.http.max-connections", 48);
user_pref("network.http.max-connections-per-server", 16);
user_pref("network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy", 16);
user_pref("network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server", 8);
user_pref("network.http.pipelining", true);
user_pref("network.http.pipelining.maxrequests", 8);
user_pref("network.http.proxy.pipelining", true);
// Put an end to blinking text!
user_pref("browser.blink_allowed", false);
// Cache Tweak
user_pref("browser.cache.memory.capacity", 65536);
// Send Link Referrer Strings Only (Not Images)
user_pref("network.http.sendRefererHeader", 1);