Firefox Help Needed

[Tartan]

Ok....something is bugging me in firefox that I can't find out how to correct or tweak.

Basically how do I set firefox to be able to download more than two things at any one time....ie if a page has say six files on it I want in iE, I can hold down ALT and click on each one to download them. Now there was a patch in IE to do this, therefore I could download all six files at once then go make a drink or something while I waited. However I cannot find a way to do this in firefox and I've tried a couple of different extensions. If I click on six files to download them as mentioned, it will only say download two at any one time and maybe queue up one or two more if you are lucky. :rolleyes:

Any fixes for this, it's a major gripe with me and unless I can find a cure I'm gonna have to go back to IE, and I don't want too, since I kinda like Firefox apart from this. :cry:

Thanks

[Tartan]

Nobody?

[Joel]

Moved here

[aldo]

Goto MozillaZine forums [www.mozillazine.org] ... they will have better answers than people here.

[burning_jonny]

Maybe the site only lets you d/l 2 at a time??

Try a download manager or ask somebody on the Mozillazine forums...

[Slimy]

switch back to ie :D

jks

i think there is an option in settings, i don't have firefox installed but if i were u i would check for a limit on simultaneous dls

[Tartan]

burning_johnny - No it's all sites

slimy - yah i've tried searching various settings.

anyone else? :)

[bangbang023 Veteran]

for ease of use, create a user.js file in your profile directory and add this into the file and save it:

user_pref("network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server", 8);

[Tartan]

for ease of use, create a user.js file in your profile directory and add this into the file and save it:

Thanks for the attempt bangbang023, I tried that and I had also tried that in the prefs.js file as well as trying user.js too now, but no luck. :(

[bangbang023 Veteran]

ok then try the following ones too:

user_pref("network.http.max-connections", 48);

user_pref("network.http.max-connections-per-server", 16);

user_pref("network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy", 16);

[Tartan]

Still no luck.....thanks for trying though bangbang023 :)

If anyone has an answer lemme know, it's driving me crazy.

[bangbang023 Veteran]

that hasn't helped? damn, that's fixed it for other people in the past.

[Tartan]

Yah I don't know what it is....these are the extensions I'm using

FireFox v0.91

DOM Inspector 1.0

Bookmarks Syncronizer 0.9.6

Adblock 0.5

Download Statusbar 0.5

CookieCuller 1.0.2

ChromEdit 0.0.5.1.1

Image Toobar 0.3

BugMeNot 0.3

Firesomething 1.5.2

ReloadEvery 0.3.1

Dunno if any of them affect it at all.

[Kasteo]

If it's possible could you give us the website that you can't download? It would be easier for us to try it out and find the solution.

[bangbang023 Veteran]

try disabling download stausbar and see if that helps. It obviously has to hook in and may be breaking something.

[Tartan]

Hmmmm....well that seems to have made half a cure. Uninstalling downloadstatus bar has corrected a file queueing problem meaning more files can be queued now, BUT still only two files at once can be downloaded......ahhh well good enough for now until a better fix is created. :)

Thanx bangbang023

[CoolCatBad]

I have read that "network.http.keep-alive" is causing this problem.

Try setting this to false, then the number of concurrent downloads should be governed by

network.http.max-connections-per-server

network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server

One or the other.