What workarounds/coping-strategies have you implemented to deal with multiple tabs v. two connection limit issues?

Question

The two connection limit can be particularly troublesome when you have multiple tabs open simultaneously. Besides "ignore the problem," what coping mechanisms have you seen used to get multiple tabs both doing heavily interactive Ajax despite the two connection limit?

Answer 1

The two connection limit is a "suggestion" and this article describes how to get around it where possible. Other Firefox configuration is discussed on this about the about:config capability in Firefox.

Also, if you own the website, you can tweak the performance of the site using suggestions form this book from the Chief Performance Yahoo.

Answer 2

If you send your Ajax requests to a different subdomain they won't interfere with the connection limit of your regular pages. It will cost an extra DNS lookup though