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Re: Iceweasel won't browse cnet.com

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On 2011-04-08, Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> wrote:
>> > 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.
> It would be really nice if this was *documented* somewhere...

Good point. I knew about this for a while, but I'm considered a power
user of sorts - now that you brought it up, I don't exactly know where
I came across this, or if I ever saw it prominently placed on the
firefox website or some such. Probably it's burried somewhere deep down
inside.


>> Hope that helps.
> Looks like it might.  Thanks.

After evalutation I'd love to hear about your results. Usually I don't
touch the settings, so I remember only a single time when at work I had a
rather powerful workstation (i.e. much more recent than my 9 year old
laptop at home), so I actually increased the defaults to make use of
the faster CPU.

It never crossed my mind if setting them down a bit might improve the
experience on slower computers (or connections).

Regards
Thomas

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Iceweasel won't browse cnet.com Bryce <none@invalid.invalid> - 2011-04-08 08:31 -0400
  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 jellybean stonerfish <stonerfish@geocities.com> - 2011-04-08 14:06 +0000
  Re: Iceweasel won't browse cnet.com notbob <notbob@notbob.invalid> - 2011-04-08 15:27 +0000
    Re: Iceweasel won't browse cnet.com Bryce <none@invalid.invalid> - 2011-04-08 20:08 -0400

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