Now that one of the biggest Cable company of US, Comcast has started having bandwidth caps starting Oct 1, it is just a matter of time before rest of the Broadband providers jump on this and start having caps.
Here are some of the things which you can do to reduce your usage of bandwidth

• Disk Cache :Increase the cache of Firefox to about 100-200 MB or more.This way less stuff is downloaded especially pictures etc.To do this in Firefox Click on Tools-->Options-->Advanced-->Network and then under the offline storage section specify the desired size in "Use up to".
• Enable SSL caching : By default on firefox SSL caching is disabled for security reasons .But if you are on your personal computer and feel comfortable, you can enable SSL caching by setting the parameter "browser.cache.disk_cache_ssl" to "true" by typing about:config in the location bar of firefox and then searching for that parameter.
• Disable Pre-fetch : Firefox has an in-build feature where in it will try to pre-fetch links on the page which you are visting with the assumption that you might click on it.This does give the user the impression of faster load time when a link is clicked on that page but this comes at a cost of unnecessary bandwidth usage.
  Type in about:config in the URL bar and then find the keyword "network.prefetch-next" and toggle it to "false" by right-clicking it.

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