Firefox connection problems

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cyberslag5k

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All of a sudden I'm experiencing connection problems using FireFox. Both at home (XP) and at work (Vista), it seems as though I'm losing my connection every now and then. When it's "up", pages load fine and at a good pace, but after a few minutes it'll be as if someone pulled my network cable out. After a minute or so, everything will be back to normal.

So far, I haven't noticed the phenominon in IE, though I haven't used it much. I've never had these problems before. It seems as though it just started, and the fact that it happens both at work and at home makes me think some sort of update broke something.

I've tried disabling all of my add-ons, and I even re-installed FireFox, but the problem persists. I found a few pages that suggested tweaking some things in about:config, but that only bumped up my speed (rather nicely, I might add) during the "up" time, which wasn't a problem to begin with.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.
 
I too was baffled by this issue, and kept uninstalling and then reinstalling Firefox, which would resolve the issue...until it started again. Through some poking around, I found what the issue was. Here's how to fix it:

1. Open a new tab and type about:config, then <enter>
2. Type "http." (without quotes) and let it filter the results
3. Now take a look at some of the values on this page, specifically:

network.http.max-connections
network.http.max-connections-per-proxy
network.http.max-connections-per-server
network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests

More than likely these keys are all in bold (denoting they've been changed from the default), and the corresponding values are quite high. This is what's causing your time-outs and stalls. You can reset these values to their defaults, but after awhile they will mysteriously reset back to their out-of-whack values.

How to solve this: You must lock the keys/values I listed above using the method outlined at this website: http://ilias.ca/blog/2005/03/locking-mozilla-firefox-settings/

This solved my issue, hopefully it solves yours as well.
 
strange. i purposly set those values higher than default (by about double)

including network.http.pipelining & network.http.proxy.pipelining/http.proxy.keep-alive to true and have never had a problem.

seems to be pretty quick as well
 
Interesting, I've been having this problem lately as well. I've been digging but I hadn't found anything to fix this problem. I reset the values described by CookieFactory. Time to see if that helped at all.
 
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