According to this question: Where can I find the default timeout settings for all browsers? each every browser has a default setting for time out
The default timeout in Firefox17, after checking about:config is 115s. However I have tested to run some request in which I timed and it returned a request after >150~ seconds.
So I wonder how does it works, shouldn't Firefox have timed out before?
3 Answers
There's many forms of timeout, are you after the connection timeout, request timeout or time to live (time before TCP connection stops).
The default TimeToLive on Firefox is 115s (network.http.keep-alive.timeout)
The default connection timeout on Firefox is 250s (network.http.connection-retry-timeout)
The default request timeout for Firefox is 30s (network.http.pipelining.read-timeout).
The time it takes to do an HttpRequest depends on if a connection has been made this has to be within 250s which I'm guessing you're not after. You're probably after the request timeout which I think is 30,000ms (30s) so to conclude I'd say it's timing out with a connection time out that's why you got a response back after ~150s though I haven't really tested this.
According to , the pref network.http.connection-retry-timeout controls the amount of time in ms (Milliseconds !) to wait for success on the initial connection before beginning the second one. Setting it to 0 disables the parallel connection.
go to the url about:config and paste each line:
network.http.keep-alive.timeout;10
network.http.connection-retry-timeout;10
network.http.pipelining.read-timeout;5
network.http.connection-timeout;10
