How to Increase the Number of Simultaneous Download Limit in Firefox?

By Mr.Byte • July 30, 2007

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Many assume that the limit of simultaneous download form a server is limited only to Internet Explorer but as it’s a web standard to limit the number of simultaneous download to 2, Firefox also falls under the same category. When you click a couple of files to download in Firefox you might have noticed everything adding up in the download manager but only two files get downloaded form a server at any time.

Note: You might have seen Firefox downloading more than two files at the same time but they may be from different servers.

So, how to increase the number of simultaneous download limit per server in Firefox?

Step 1: Open Firefox and type about:config in the address bar
Step 2: Search for network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server by entering this in the filter field.

Max Connections per server in Firefox

Step 3: by default this would have set to 2, double click and set this digit to a higher number preferably under 10 to increase the simultaneous download limit per server.Also check out ‘How to Increase the Number of Simultaneous Download Limit in IE?’

Categories: How To, Internet, Software, Tweaks
Tags: Download, Firefox, How To, Internet, internet-explorer, Software, Tweaks

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11 Responses to “How to Increase the Number of Simultaneous Download Limit in Firefox?”

How to Increase the Number of Simultaneous Download Limit in IE7?
July 30, 2007 at 1:39 pm | Permalink

[...] Note: This limitation is for all browsers as its a web standard which means Firefox also has the simultaneous download limit per server as 2. Read more about this in How to Increase the Number of Simultaneous Download Limit in Firefox? [...]
ravishankar
July 30, 2007 at 6:28 pm | Permalink

cool tip. i wish i had known this before years !!!
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July 31, 2007 at 12:27 pm | Permalink

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dt
July 31, 2007 at 1:19 pm | Permalink

You should especially do this if you have more than one ethernet port on your PC connected to the internet.
bharadwaj
July 31, 2007 at 8:15 pm | Permalink

Hi,

I had dropped a comment some time back in a post, (it was a good one) and you challenged mozilla firefox against some browser..

I am a voracious fan of mozilla, and i did find a good number of posts on them , nice to see that

What browser do you use?
Mr.Byte
August 1, 2007 at 2:32 am | Permalink

@bharadwaj, I use both Firefox and IE7 at the same time
Benedict Herold
August 3, 2007 at 1:51 am | Permalink

Be cautious in using increasing the limit. 2 is optimal number and I suggest using it. Server might ban you if you exceed their download connection limit.
ace reyes
September 25, 2007 at 1:01 am | Permalink

hi
i just wanna ask if its possible to lock the file download so that i can secure my pc for those costumer whos always downloading viruses and ignoring the firefox alarm …
thx
Mike
July 3, 2008 at 4:13 am | Permalink

FF3.0 has this value already set to 6.

Thnx anyway!
·DaviD·
July 6, 2008 at 11:10 pm | Permalink

Thank you pal!!
zmin
July 27, 2009 at 8:50 pm | Permalink

it’s now 15 by default…

is there a way to limit the number of maximum downloads in the manager without installing an add-on for queuing?

please reply (or preferably email)

thanks!