How can I change the connection timeout setting in Firefox?

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When I load a page which can't be connected for some reasons, before Firefox shows the error "The connection has timed out", I will wait for about three minutes. I want change the Firefox connection timeout value to 20 seconds. I found something here https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1342310/wher…

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You can change the timeout settings by typing "about:config" in the address bar and then filtering on "timeout":

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