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| From | Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> |
|---|---|
| Organization | Deepwoods Software |
| Subject | Re: Iceweasel won't browse cnet.com |
| References | (1 earlier) <inn0r4$8vd$1@news.albasani.net> <0L-dncxCn7qykwLQnZ2dnUVZ_sydnZ2d@posted.localnet> <inn334$dpl$1@news.albasani.net> <E4Odnauw674fuwLQnZ2dnUVZ_qqdnZ2d@posted.localnet> <slrnipudb2.fb3.fwd+usenet-spam2011q1@keus02.synserver.de> |
| Newsgroups | comp.os.linux.misc |
| Message-ID | <NbWdne3GW9hKoQLQnZ2dnUVZ_sWdnZ2d@posted.localnet> (permalink) |
| Date | 2011-04-08 11:50 -0500 |
At Fri, 8 Apr 2011 16:18:42 +0000 (UTC) Thomas Keusch <fwd+usenet-spam2011q2@spam2011q2.bsd-solutions-duesseldorf.de> wrote:
>
> 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.
It would be really nice if this was *documented* somewhere...
>
> Hope that helps.
Looks like it might. Thanks.
>
> Regards
> Thomas
>
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