I currently have a LAMP stack on a box in the lab that I work in. I have an application running off of said LAMP stack. For some of the pages that I need to render, there are a number of large images (1.5m). Scaling down the size of the images themselves isn't really an option.
That being said, when I try loading a page that has, say, 10 of these images on it in IE or Firefox, the page never completely loads and some of the images are only half-loaded. When I load the page in Chrome, however, it works fine. After messing around a little it looks like IE and Firefox request / render all images for an HTML page upon the image tags making it to the page (ie: 10-20 concurrent requests for large images at a time). I'm not sure what exactly Chrome does differently but it seems to work every time.
I am not all that well-versed in Apache and I would imagine this problem stems for handling a number of concurrent requests on Apache's end, but that is only a guess.
Any insight on the matter would be greatly appreciated.
