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Randomly losing connectivity

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Firefox always seems to just freeze (in regard to connectivity, not to program activity) all the time and hang on "connecting...." I will usually open IE to see if it is a connection problem, and IE works fine ("fine" being solely in regard to connectivity). I usually restart firefox and it is fine. I know this sounds like an easy fix if I have one tab open with google or something, but when I'm doing something online with multiple tabs open, or if I can't save what I'm doing first because it won't connect, it becomes more of a pain. I have never had this problem until firefox 7 (actually, everything after 3).

Is there a caching issue with the new firefox?? Is there a setting I need to adjust? I don't get it, it happens all the time. I'll be browsing the internet, then out of nowhere, it everything will just hang. Since it predominately happens when I open a few tabs quickly in concession, I thought it was just a bandwidth issue and it would take a little longer. But then I would stop all of the tabs but one, and that didn't help. Then I would stop ALL of the tabs, and just try to open google, and even that wouldn't open. Not until I restarted firefox. Normally, I would just think I overwhelmed firefox, but this has never happened until the latest versions of firfox. I could have near 20 tabs open in the old ones and the only issues I'd have would be bandwidth issues if I were trying to connect on too many tabs at the same time. Now it seems to completely crash firefox's connection.

Firefox always seems to just freeze (in regard to connectivity, not to program activity) all the time and hang on "connecting...." I will usually open IE to see if it is a connection problem, and IE works fine ("fine" being solely in regard to connectivity). I usually restart firefox and it is fine. I know this sounds like an easy fix if I have one tab open with google or something, but when I'm doing something online with multiple tabs open, or if I can't save what I'm doing first because it won't connect, it becomes more of a pain. I have never had this problem until firefox 7 (actually, everything after 3). Is there a caching issue with the new firefox?? Is there a setting I need to adjust? I don't get it, it happens all the time. I'll be browsing the internet, then out of nowhere, it everything will just hang. Since it predominately happens when I open a few tabs quickly in concession, I thought it was just a bandwidth issue and it would take a little longer. But then I would stop all of the tabs but one, and that didn't help. Then I would stop ALL of the tabs, and just try to open google, and even that wouldn't open. Not until I restarted firefox. Normally, I would just think I overwhelmed firefox, but this has never happened until the latest versions of firfox. I could have near 20 tabs open in the old ones and the only issues I'd have would be bandwidth issues if I were trying to connect on too many tabs at the same time. Now it seems to completely crash firefox's connection.

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The default of the pref network.http.max-connections has been increased from 30 to 256 in Firefox 6+ versions.

Try to decrease the value of the pref network.http.max-connections from 256 to 30 as used in Firefox 3 versions.