David, >I'm using jQuery 1.2.1 (I love it... the selectors are most awesome >and it has a very "functional" flavor) > >I've got a situation that I've seen on Firefox 2.0 (it may be an issue >on other browsers.) It seems that I can only have 2 pending HTTP >requests from the browser to the same server at a given time.
Firefox has configuration settings that limit the number of concurrent connections to servers as well as to per server. Here's a blog entry with more information: http://prefetch.net/blog/index.php/2005/01/20/speeding-up-firefox/ Make sure to read the section on network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server, which defaults to 2. -Dan
