Thursday, September 5, 2013

Re: [Avid-L2] Firefox tip for downloading many multiple files increasing limit

 

Very cool. I wonder if there are hidden menus in Opera and other
browsers. --J.B.

John Moore wrote:
>
>
> I use firefox and I have always found that when I'm trying to download
> multiple files like from a sound effects library I could only get 6
> downloads going at a time. I thought this was a limitation of the
> site I was on but tonight I found that there is a setting in firefox
> that limits the number of simultaneous downloads from the same
> server. If you open a new tab and type "about.config" in the address
> bar you gain access to a ton of setting most of which I will never
> touch but the one that controls the downloads is:
>
> network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-serverâ€
>
> I set it from 6 to 14 and voila I'm downloading all 14 files from a
> lesson plan at the same time. Hope this helps somebody along the way.
> John Moore
> Barking Trout Productions
> Studio City, CA
> bigfish@pacbell.net
>
>

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