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Date:      Thu, 20 Sep 2012 20:52:27 -0400
From:      "Dieter BSD" <dieterbsd@engineer.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: How do I set number of retries in Firefox?
Message-ID:  <20120921005228.165840@gmx.com>

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>> I have a problem with various parts of web pages stopping
>> before getting completely downloaded. Links has a useful retries
>> setting (setup->network options->retries) which seems to fix
>> this. I need a similar fix for firefox 3.6.2

> Firefox 15
> URL: about:config
> search: retry
> network.http.connection-retry-timeout;250

3.6.2 doesn't have network.http.connection-retry-timeout,
but I found network.http.max-connections and friends,
reducing those should reduce the timeouts.  So far so good.

I would have never guessed to type "about:config" as a URL.
Very useful to know.  Thank you.



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