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I want to change the default timeout in Chrome. In Firefox I can set the value of network.http.connection-timeout in about:config - but how can I do that in Chrome?
David
Posted 2013-06-21T10:51:49.383
Reputation: 752
How can I change the default website connection timeout in Chrome?
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You can't. Google has been ignoring requests to implement this feature for over six years, so I wouldn't hold your breath.
2WOW. That is why Chrome should not be the dominant Browser. Just because Google does not like something, they should not be able to prevent it. – Blackbam – 2018-03-07T12:51:56.893
@Blackbam I can't and won't agree with you. If anything they are pushing vendors and everyone else to deliver better user experiences. There is no need to wait for a page to load above a certain threshold time. If the server can't handle the requests, it's better to kill active pending request, so the server doesn't die of overload. – Rumplin – 2020-01-30T18:07:56.257
1@Rumplin A user should have the power to change it. You can not deliver pages which load like super long. But still you should be able to configure a tool to certain needs. – Blackbam – 2020-01-30T18:57:21.390
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It's hopeless. They just won't do anything about enabling users to change Chrome's timeout settings. But you could switch to any of four other Gecko-based browsers in common use that have no timeout problems. Or you could start using one of the Mozilla-based browsers.
andre garnet
Posted 2013-06-21T10:51:49.383
Reputation: 151
1Mozilla is Gecko based.... WebKit / Blink (Google's WebKit fork) is probably what you meant? – Gert van den Berg – 2017-02-02T19:11:21.710
2I was tempted to mark this as "not an answer", but I realized that you are suggesting an alternative solution. I would suggest editing it and indicating that so others aren't tempted to downvote or flag it. – Moses – 2013-09-12T19:05:08.483
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I dealt with this issue by editing the registry. I think the registry affects not only IE but also Chrome in Windows 10. I tried extend time-out. then I can extend it and max time-out is about 7Hrs in my case.
Reference: Microsoft Support
Click Start or press Win-R to get Run box, type regedit, and then click OK.
Locate and then click the following key in the registry:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\InternetSettings
On the Edit menu, point to New, and then click DWORD Value.
Type KeepAliveTimeout, and then press Enter.
On the Edit menu, click Modify.
Type the appropriate time-out value (in milliseconds), and then click OK. For example, to set the time-out value to two minutes, type 120000.
Make another DWORD value ServerInfoTimeout and set it to the same value.
Restart machine.
NOSUKE
Posted 2013-06-21T10:51:49.383
Reputation: 41
As of today, this doesn't seem to work – Shayaan – 2017-12-14T20:50:06.450
In case anyone comes here wondering how to simulate XHR connection errors while developing web apps, you can use device mode to do so. – Jannik Jochem – 2015-04-13T07:50:52.793
Note that newer versions of Firefox no longer use that configuration. It also uses the system-level configuration which can be changed as mentioned in NOSUKE's answer. – ADTC – 2017-10-21T22:31:22.797