Here's a great tip for getting firefox to load your pages faster; multithread it!

Boing Boing: Go-faster tweak for Firefox

I turned on network.http.pipelining and network.http.proxy.pipelining and set network.http.pipelining.maxrequests to 15 and it already helped dramatically. I'll mess with these settings some more to see what I can get out of it.

Kevin Sites Blog has a first hand report and pictures of the tsunami. A good report in a place where few reports seem to be able to get into.