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Enabling more then 6 simultaneous downloads in IE8

Soumik — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 02:20:07 +0000

Internet Explorer 8, as it may be known, doesn’t support more than 6 parallel downloads. While downloading a large number of big files from slow servers, bypassing this limit becomes a necessity. Like the previous versions, this limit is defined in the registry, but in a different location.

To change this limit, close all instances if Internet Explorer, open the registry editor by going to Start-> Run-> regedit. Navigate to ‘HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\InternetExplorer\Main\FeatureControl\FEATURE_MAXCONNECTIONSPER1_0SERVER’. In the right pane, find the DWORD value ‘iexplore.exe’ and change it to 15(or any other number you may want). If the DWORD entry doesn’t exist, create it by “Edit-> New-> DWORD value”, and put the name as ‘iexplore.exe’. Change the value to 15 and leave the base as Hexadecimal. Navigate to the adjacent key ‘FEATURE_MAXCONNECTIONSPERSERVER’ and perform the same actions.

Internet Explorer should now allow more than 6 simultaneous downloads.

Firefox 3.5.5 available for download

Soumik — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:09:42 +0000

Just more than a week after the last stable release (3.5.4), Mozilla has released a small stability update for the popular browser, bringing it to version 3.5.5. This release addresses two critical bugs which crashes the browser and three other normal priority bugs. The full changelog can be viewed here.

You should be automatically prompted to upgrade to the latest version; but if you don’t feel like waiting, grab the latest release from here.

Disable the compulsory automatic delay while installing plugins in Firefox

Disable the compulsory automatic delay while installing plugins in Firefox

Soumik — Sun, 31 May 2009 04:18:19 +0000

For those of you who use Mozilla Firefox, you must’ve noticed the customary 2 seconds delay while installing plugins. This may be useful for new users, but for experienced users and developers, who install a lot of plugins for testing purposes, this automatic delay just serves to slow down work.

To disable the compulsory delay, type in about:config in the address bar. If you are editing the browser variables for the first time, select “I will be careful, I promise!”. In the filter field, type in security.dialog_enable_delay. Double click on the entry to modify it. Enter the delay time value in milliseconds. If you want to disable the delay completely, enter 0 as the value.

Now you’ll be instaling plugins without any delay.