TCP connections reuse in Firefox 5 and related performance improvements(blog.httpwatch.com)
blog.httpwatch.com
TCP connections reuse in Firefox 5 and related performance improvements
http://blog.httpwatch.com/2011/06/10/investigating-the-network-performance-of-firefox-5/
Reusing TCP windows after a while does not reflect the actual state of the network as things would have changed. In fact, there have been proposals about CWND reset[1] that adress this issue.
[2] http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2861.txt