How many concurrent AJAX (XmlHttpRequest) requests are allowed in popular browsers?

Question

In Firefox 3, the answer is 6 per domain: as soon as a 7th XmlHttpRequest (on any tab) to the same domain is fired, it is queued until one of the other 6 finish.

Wha

Answer 1

With IE6 / IE7 one can tweak the number of concurrent requests in the registry. Here's how to set it to four each.

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings]
"MaxConnectionsPerServer"=dword:00000004
"MaxConnectionsPer1_0Server"=dword:00000004