From time to time I’ve been frustrated by the inability of both IE and Firefox to download more than two files at a time. After a little research I was surprised to find out that this is intentional! Luckily, in Firefox this can be changed.
The process of changing this limitation is pretty simple. For those of you who don’t know, Firefox has a special “link” you can use to change settings which are not exposed within the User Interface. To go to this link simply type “about:config” in your location bar and press enter.
In the resulting list find the option named:
network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server
This is set to 2 by default. You can set this to be whatever you want. I set mine to four.
Now, you can download more than just two files at a time!
DougHughes.net 
Comments on: "Ever Wanted To Download More than Two Files at a Time?" (16)
You can do the same thing in IE:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=282402
Cheers
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I prefer to use a separate program for downloading files as I don’t want a browser crash to affect my download. I recommend FlashGot for Firefox (http://www.flashgot.net) and have been using Free Download Manager (http://www.freedownloadmanager.org/) to handle the download threads. Now I don’t have to wait until my downloads are complete before I restart my browser.
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nice hack! thanx man, i didn’t know about that option, gotta mess around with the about:config now, lol
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super groovy!!
I did not know about about:config…
thanks
LOL
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super groovy!!
I did not know about about:config…
thanks
LOL
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Moustache!
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It’s not a hack – it’s just changing the config file. Other things that might interest you:
about:plugins – lists all the plugins you’ve got
about:mozilla – a little easter egg.
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Really helpful post, thank you
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Awesome, thanks!
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Thank God! Thank you!
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thanks so much :DD its an awesome thing because i usually download more than 200 files from a site for a game and it would always take yearssss. =)
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Thanks much , dude.
very useful….
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Thanks!!!
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Its really heplfull for me
Prem Soni
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Thanks a lot!
it was really helped me
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Genius!
Thank you very much.
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