How to tell Firefox to give up on external content

Question

Sometimes you open pages which have some small external content like a tracking system, stats counter and the like, and sometimes these services are slow or even not available. Still, firefox waits for a very long period of time during which the page load is not complete. Is there a wait to set a time limit after which it gives up and ends the page load no matter what?

Answer 1

I use NoScript and Adblock Plus to cut out the tracking behavior. Also if you use a cookie manager (if you accept cookies) you have more control over the tracking.

Quickly looking at the about:config panel, I didn;t see anything on page loading timeouts, but it was a fast look.

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Another couple of extensions to look at, would be the DownForEveryoneOrJustMe search plugin. (Just put the domain into the search box and search, will bring up the test site which tells you if it is just your system or the whole site.)
The other one to look at might be ImgLikeOpera. I haven't used it for a while, but you can white-list or temp white-list or blacklist images with it. Don't know how it works now-a-days. I last used it with versions before 3.5.x, as I remember.

Answer 2

Just open about:config (by typing it in your address bar) and search for "timeout", decrease values.