I use Firefox3 and when I open up several Firefox windows (each with many tabs/websites), 
most of the tabs/websites timeout and I have to manually retry each one to get it 
to connect to it's website.

It was suggested that I increase the network timeout parameter(s) that affect this, 
but I don't know how to do this.  Can someone help with this...

jc

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re: how to increase network timeout for internet use Sunday, March 22, 2009 at 10:25 am Posted by C K (6910 messages posted) This would be a setting or issue within Firefox (or it's reg entries, or you need to create an entry), not with the operating system. You should locate a firefox forum to see if there is an answer. Or send a question to FF support. For instance, this would be the KB article for IE.. But it doesn't work for everyone due to the fact that (according to MS) the timeout duration is "by design" so if there are other issues in the mix, it won't always work.. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: how to increase network timeout for internet use Sunday, March 22, 2009 at 11:17 am Posted by geek9pm (286 messages posted) Perhaps I don not understand the problem. You say several windows at a time. How would you do that? And why? Can you not just open several tabs? Multiple instances of Firefox, or any program is a extra load on system resources. There is an option to save tabs in Firefox. Works good for me. The option is in the Tools > Options Tabs. Then everytime you exit save tabs for next time. Geek9pm [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: how to increase network timeout for internet use Sunday, March 22, 2009 at 10:11 pm Posted by John (16 messages posted) I often have 30-50 Firefox tabs open at once. Sometimes they are all in one window, sometimes not. CTRL-N gets you a new window. CTRL-N ten times gets you 10 new windows. I use Tab-Mix-Plus and Session Manager and save sessions of tabs going back 20 sessions. Often when I open up a session that has many tabs, it takes too long to make the internet connection for each tab, thus the timeout referred to above, hence my problem. Increasing the network timeout was a suggestion from a Firefox newsgroup, that's why I'm asking here. There are many other places to ask the question, but I'm asking here...can someone help me? On Sunday, March 22, 2009 at 11:17 am, geek9pm wrote: >Perhaps I don not understand the problem. You say several windows at a time. How >would you do that? And why? Can you not just open several tabs? Multiple instances >of Firefox, or any program is a extra load on system resources. >There is an option to save tabs in Firefox. Works good for me. The option is in the >Tools > Options Tabs. Then everytime you exit save tabs for next time. > > >title="Save Tans Option" src="http://geek9pm.com/save_tabs.png"> > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: how to increase network timeout for internet use Monday, March 23, 2009 at 8:31 am Posted by geek9pm (286 messages posted) Wow! That is a lot of stuff! Sorry, I do not know the answer. Most references in the Microsoft KB do not offer Network Timing as a viable solution you tour program. Here is the general article on NT and 2000 diagnostics: How to Troubleshoot TCP/IP Connectivity with Windows 2000 or Windows NT For a Microsoft Windows XP version of this article, see 314067 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314067/EN-US/ ) . May I ask questions? Do you have SP-4? Have you recently reloaded Winsock? Are you on a gateway by yourself? Is this a business LAN? Do you use a modem and/or router to connect to the Internet. Does the system use VMWare? Do you use a VPN? Is your connect to the internet above 1500 kbps (T1)? Havew you talked to your ISP about this issue? Did they indicate it is a Windows problem? Geek9pm [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: how to increase network timeout for internet use Monday, March 23, 2009 at 7:45 pm Posted by C K (6910 messages posted) As I indicated before, there isn't a network timeout in the opearting system like what you are looking for. That is in the browser, since the browser is connecting to the web and requesting the web pages. Not sure what the Firefox users were referring to as far as the operating system. They obviously are grasping at straws if they can't tell you for sure the steps to take and where to go to find what they are indicating. I've been all through network setup and have never seen a network timeout setting in the operating system that controls the browser.. Only in the browser settings. Even FF has it's limits and you are going well beyond what I have been able to do with it and still have a stable browser interface. And in addition, it's well know that MS isn't exactly friendly with the competition with compatibility etc.. So I think the best answers are going to come from an FF forum or from FF support. If they don't have an answer, we certianly won't have one here either unless someone has had the exact issue. I did some research on your query and there was nothing, including in my XP bible (and registry dictionary) about the system having a network timeout function. It was only applicable with the system acquiring an address through DHCP, (and some other functions) which has nothing to do with the brower or waiting on a website to respond. Sorry.. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: how to increase network timeout for internet use Monday, March 23, 2009 at 11:43 pm Posted by Maureen Clow (39 messages posted) It may not be firefox. But the sites themselves. I have had this problem myself with just one window open with a site. That was with I.E. I think because you have so many windows open of course they will time out. On Monday, March 23, 2009 at 7:45 pm, C K wrote: >As I indicated before, there isn't a network timeout in the opearting system like >what you are looking for. That is in the browser, since the browser is connecting >to the web and requesting the web pages. Not sure what the Firefox users were referring >to as far as the operating system. They obviously are grasping at straws if they >can't tell you for sure the steps to take and where to go to find what they are indicating. > I've been all through network setup and have never seen a network timeout setting >in the operating system that controls the browser.. Only in the browser settings. > >Even FF has it's limits and you are going well beyond what I have been able to do >with it and still have a stable browser interface. And in addition, it's well know >that MS isn't exactly friendly with the competition with compatibility etc.. So >I think the best answers are going to come from an FF forum or from FF support. >If they don't have an answer, we certianly won't have one here either unless someone >has had the exact issue. > >I did some research on your query and there was nothing, including in my XP bible >(and registry dictionary) about the system having a network timeout function. It >was only applicable with the system acquiring an address through DHCP, (and some >other functions) which has nothing to do with the brower or waiting on a website >to respond. Sorry.. [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 2000 Discussion Forum