Is there a way to configure your web browser use multiple connections?
Mozilla already uses multiple connections.
Enter 'about:config' in the URL input. Adjust these parameters to set the
number of connections used:
network.http.max-connections
network.http.max-connections-per-server
network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server
network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy
However I think the defaults are sufficient for most situations so I doubt
there will be much befit from increasing them. If you have a page with
lots of images, then more connections will enable all the images to
download simultaneously, but the total time for them to arrive will be the
same. Unless you are browsing lots of very slow websites simultaneously
(as Freenet users do.) Or accessing a single server that is throttling
per-connection (unlikely).
I think what you are asking for is to use multiple connections with each
connection downloading a chunk of the same file? There is a benefit to
doing this when downloading a large file at gigabit speeds where you are
hitting the limits of TCP. There may also be a benefit when you are
suffering from a bottleneck somewhere in the network and you want to
'cheat' TCP's fairness mechanisms to get a larger slice of the available
bandwidth. (I'm not sure about this, can anyone confirm?) But there is
not likely to be any benefit for small files, such as web pages, or in a
situation where the bottleneck is your own Internet gateway.
In fact, for small files the overhead of opening a TCP connection is
significant, so there is a benefit from re-using existing TCP connections
rather than opening more. To do this, enable this option:
network.http.pipelining
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