Fun with Firefox.

[LochnarITB]

Could you please point me to something that verifies this? I tried using my best Google-fu to duplicate your warning. The vast majority of what I found was other postings of these and other settings to consider and people who had used them without problems. The biggest problem I can find is that there might be rare rendering problems when requests come back out of order or the connection closes prematurely, especially with things such as table layouts. One point that I did see mentioned contradicts what you said. It does not make the same request multiple times, it takes the requests it needs for the page and sends them together, in the same packet if possible. Mozilla even has a FAQ on pipelining here. Another item of note is that some of what I found indicates that maxrequest won't go higher than 8 because it depends on another setting which I did not mess with. I also wonder if maybe you have got caught up in spreading a myth. (on the internet, nah! ;) ) While Googling (http pipelining flooding) I came on the discussion here. The last post there is this:

Giblet Plus!
is this true? I read it on SA

a: These settings violate the HTTP protocol, and give you a speed boost by flooding the web server with 20-something connections for every single image and page request. There's a reason that they're not the default.

These settings will not only cause many web servers to have problems, but they can also make your web browser be mistaken for a flood attack, which will make the server add your IP to an "ignore" list. Stay away from these "optimized" settings, unless you know exactly what they do and how they work.

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Does it look familiar? I don't know what SA is so I couldn't find what the person referred to but it does make me wonder.