How do I lengthen the timeout period to more that 15 seconds?
Search for a web page times out at 15 seconds. I want to set the timeout for a longer period of time. I don't find a place to do that in Options. When I access busy pages, I would like to keep trying longer rather than keep hitting the Try Again button.
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The setting for that isn't in Firefox, it has to be changed in Windows.
http://drewthaler.blogspot.com/2005/09/changing-dns-query-timeout-in-windows.html
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters\DNSQueryTimeouts Multi String: "1 2 2 4 8 0" -> "4 8 8 16 32 0"
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The setting for that isn't in Firefox, it has to be changed in Windows.
http://drewthaler.blogspot.com/2005/09/changing-dns-query-timeout-in-windows.html
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters\DNSQueryTimeouts Multi String: "1 2 2 4 8 0" -> "4 8 8 16 32 0"
Thank you! I am nervous of venturing into the registry, but will read the reference you posted the link to before trying.
The problem is not concerning DNS-Query-Timeout, it's a problem of
TCP socket timeout.
I mean, my PC has well established TCP socket to the right server, she has sent the HTTP query, so now we are waiting for HTTP response (header + HTML), but my internet connection is speed-variable, and then we receive this header splitted in 2 or 3 packets, then the HTML
splitted maybe in 12 packets. Some of this packets are taking more than
15 seconds one from the other, but after all, they will end up arriving.
How can I teach my Firefox navigator to wait all this time ???
How can I tell Firefox to keep this TCP socket alive still if no data has been gotten in the last 15 or 20 seconds???