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network.http.response.timeout is no longer in about:config, where did it go?

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maxhobopower
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I'm trying to make firefox more resilient to network outages, and from my research, the setting to change to force Firefox to wait longer for pages to load is network.http.response.timeout. In the versions I'm using (23.0.1 for Windows and 20.0 for Linux Mint), this parameter seems to be missing. Does anyone know if it was removed or superceded? If it was replaced with a different setting, can someone let me know which value to increase to make Firefox wait longer than the default for a page to load? Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.

I'm trying to make firefox more resilient to network outages, and from my research, the setting to change to force Firefox to wait longer for pages to load is network.http.response.timeout. In the versions I'm using (23.0.1 for Windows and 20.0 for Linux Mint), this parameter seems to be missing. Does anyone know if it was removed or superceded? If it was replaced with a different setting, can someone let me know which value to increase to make Firefox wait longer than the default for a page to load? Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.

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cor-el
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That pref is added in Firefox 29 and later and thus won't be present in older Firefox versions.