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Firefox times out http after just 30 sec, even though http.response.timeout was 300.

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When I'm at home in Massachusetts USA, pages normally load in less than 30 sec, so there's no problem. Now I'm in Mexico, and a lot of websites just time out after 30 sec. But http.response.timeout was set to 300, so why do they time out after only 30? I also tried changing http.response.timeout to 500, but that made no difference.

When I'm at home in Massachusetts USA, pages normally load in less than 30 sec, so there's no problem. Now I'm in Mexico, and a lot of websites just time out after 30 sec. But http.response.timeout was set to 300, so why do they time out after only 30? I also tried changing http.response.timeout to 500, but that made no difference.

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Try the two following instructions:

  1. Does the problem occur when you start Firefox in Safe Mode?
  1. Check the prefs.js file in C:\Users\<user_name>\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\<profile_name>.default (for example with Notepad).
    Can you find the line user_pref("network.http.response.timeout", 300) ? (it can be an other value than 300)
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network.http.response.timeout - default is 300 That 300 is 300 seconds = 5 minutes. So your "timeout" after 30 seconds shouldn't be caused by that preference.