Default Firefox settings

[Matthew Miller]

On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 10:05:07AM +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> The problem is firefox sucks big time when you're behind a proxy - as
> soon as the proxy is slow to answer for one tab all the others start
> being sluggish/frozen (I suppose firefox has internal locking where
> the cost of some locks is only evident in a proxy context)

I think this is because network.http.max-connections-per-server, which
defaults to 8, applies to the *proxy server* when using a proxy. Crank that
number way up (as much as whoever is running your proxy will allow) and
watch that problem go away).




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