Any articles on those tweaks?
It is lightning fast compared to IE in any case.
Missed another comment... wow, I'm terrible at this. Okay. Firefox speed tweaking. This is written for version 0.9.x, so I don't know if you can still do this in 1.0PR. Definitely worth a shot, though.
1. Type "about:config" in the address field.
2. Set the value of network.http.pipelining to "true".
3. Set the value of network.http.pipelining.maxrequests to "100".
4. Set the value of network.http.proxy.pipelining to "true"
5. Set the value of nglayout.initialpaint.delay to "0"
Pages should load even faster, though you might occasionally experience a slightly messed up page load. If you do, a refresh should fix it.