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> You can generally load just 6 assets in parallel per origin

This seems to only apply to Chrome, whereas Firefox will happily download everything as fast as possible.

I know this because I fixed a bug recently where chrome was taking so long to download images that other resources on the page were timing out. No problem in Firefox.

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Last I checked all the browsers had limits [1] when it came to HTTP 1.X.

[1] http://blog.olamisan.com/max-parallel-http-connections-in-a-...

The limits in Firefox must be really high then, it was almost funny looking at the difference in behaviour between the two browsers in the situation I was testing.

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