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How to increase timeout when network timeout message occurs on sites "far away"

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Hi!

In general, my internet runs fine. But sometimes I have to call websites from the opposite side of the world. I assume that the internet connection thereto is lame and maybe interference-prone. Hence, about 20 seconds after entering the URL, Firefox gives me a network timeout message.

Is there a way to increase or disable timeout?

I already looked into about:config and filtered for "timeout", but there are soooo many settings which could be related to my problem. Which one do I have to modify?

Hi! In general, my internet runs fine. But sometimes I have to call websites from the opposite side of the world. I assume that the internet connection thereto is lame and maybe interference-prone. Hence, about 20 seconds after entering the URL, Firefox gives me a network timeout message. Is there a way to increase or disable timeout? I already looked into about:config and filtered for "timeout", but there are soooo many settings which could be related to my problem. Which one do I have to modify?

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The ones you want start with network.http....

It will depend on the type of connection that is being made. Timeout, retry and keep-alive depend on the original HTTP request made by the browser on behalf of you. (This means that the server sets the keep alive or cache request. )

The general main ones you can confidently edit are these ones: network.http.connect.timeout and network.http.request.timeout The integers are in seconds. 30 = 30 seconds.

I hope that helps.

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Gekose oplossing

The ones you want start with network.http....

It will depend on the type of connection that is being made. Timeout, retry and keep-alive depend on the original HTTP request made by the browser on behalf of you. (This means that the server sets the keep alive or cache request. )

The general main ones you can confidently edit are these ones: network.http.connect.timeout and network.http.request.timeout The integers are in seconds. 30 = 30 seconds.

I hope that helps.

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See this old blog post about modifying a registry key: