I know this is kind of an odd question. Since I usually develop applications based on the \"assumption\" that all users have a slow internet connection. But, does anybody th
Updating this (9 years after it was asked) as the answer I was looking for wasn't mentioned:
Firefox also has presets for throttling connection speeds. Find them in the Network Monitor tab of the developer tools. Default is 'No throttling'.
Slowest is GPRS (Download speed: 50 Kbps, Upload speed: 20 Kbps, Minimum latency (ms): 500), ranging through 'good' and 'regular' 2G, 3G and 4G to DSL and WiFi (Download speed: 30Mbps, Upload speed: 15Mbps, Minimum latency (ms): 2).
More in the Dev Tools docs.