You can enable HTTP/1.1 pipelining in chimera by adding the following lines to your ~/Library -> Application Support -> Chimera -> profiles -> default -> [random].slt -> prefs.js file:
user_pref("network.http.pipelining", true);
user_pref("network.http.proxy.pipelining", true);Pipelining speeds up browsing a lot.
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