I just checked my connection status and it's at 41.2kbps. At that speed it's like trying to breathe through a straw, only a small amount of air can get through and eventually you'll be out of breath. Doubt if other browsers will be much improvement at that speed and opening more tabs does just slow things down even more. As websites add an increasing amount of superfluous flashy bullshit it's getting difficult to do much online these days. Even sites that should basically be text and used to be pretty quick to load have added so much crap it often becomes frustrating. 613 is still fairly quick though the recent changes in appearance slowed things down a bit. My favorite line of bullshit was a year or so ago when flickr changed things and proudly proclaimed, "it's better, faster, more flikrer." not faster by a long shot, far slower it's been but I still follow some pools & individual's photostreams there as well as take the time to add to my own photostream fairly often. I also like facebook despite it's many detractors, but it too slowed down considerably with recent changes and I understand there are about to be some more drastic changes soon. I can hardly wait.