Re: Iceweasel won't browse cnet.com

From	Thomas Keusch <fwd+usenet-spam2011q2@spam2011q2.bsd-solutions-duesseldorf.de>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.misc
Subject	Re: Iceweasel won't browse cnet.com
Date	2011-04-08 16:18 +0000
Organization	BSD Solutions Duesseldorf (http://www.bsd-solutions-duesseldorf.de)
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On 2011-04-08, Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> wrote:
> Even when everything is on one site (avoiding the extra DNS lookups),
> it can (and is) still be a problem.  And it would be really, really,
> nice if FF, et. al. were not so 'eager' with reguards to available
> bandwidth -- eg if the multi-threading FF uses could be thottled back,
> say some parameter setting to reduce the number of worker threads to a
> small number (even to 1).  I know that would 'slow' things down, but at
><28.8KBPS (what I usually end up connecting at, thank you Verizon for
> NOT maintaining the copper infrastructure in Western Mass), the extra
> threads can't really speed things up.

Why don't you then tune firefox according to your special situation?

Enter about:config in the URL bar and search for the network settings.

You can tell firefox in pretty detail how many connections to open
and use.

Hope that helps.

Regards
Thomas

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  Re: Iceweasel won't browse cnet.com The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2011-04-08 13:59 +0100
    Re: Iceweasel won't browse cnet.com Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2011-04-08 08:31 -0500
      Re: Iceweasel won't browse cnet.com The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2011-04-08 14:37 +0100
        Re: Iceweasel won't browse cnet.com Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2011-04-08 10:15 -0500
          Re: Iceweasel won't browse cnet.com Thomas Keusch <fwd+usenet-spam2011q2@spam2011q2.bsd-solutions-duesseldorf.de> - 2011-04-08 16:18 +0000
            Re: Iceweasel won't browse cnet.com Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2011-04-08 11:50 -0500
              Re: Iceweasel won't browse cnet.com Thomas Keusch <fwd+usenet-spam2011q1@spam2011q1.bsd-solutions-duesseldorf.de> - 2011-04-08 21:35 +0000
    Re: Iceweasel won't browse cnet.com Mark Hobley <markhobley@yahoo.donottypethisbit.co> - 2011-04-29 13:05 +0000
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  Re: Iceweasel won't browse cnet.com notbob <notbob@notbob.invalid> - 2011-04-08 15:27 +0000
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