Limit Firefox's upload bandwidth speed?

[Drickz]

Hi

I've been uploading videos to youtube for a while and it drains all of my available bandwidth.
I'm using 8.x and when I googled for about 1 hour I found nothing but a dead addon called "firefox throttle" which doesn't work for my version.

My question is: Is there any program that can limit firefox's bandwidth or do I have to go back to 3.x to be able to use that program?

The reason I'd like this to be possible is because I want to be able to upload at other hours than during the night, but still be able to play games online without response times above 500 ms.

Thanks for your help!


Drickz

[bob99]

I don't think there are any other addons to limit bandwidth. I used to use Firefox Throttle also until I upgraded to FF4+ and it got discontinued. Then I found an external program called Netlimiter which works even better than Firefox Throttle because you can limit the bandwidth for ANY program, not just firefox. It's not free though but you can use a trial period and if you're creative you'll find a way

If you do decide to try it you may find version 3 doesn't let you set the d/l limit, only the u/l. Going back to version 2 fixed it for me.

[Drickz]

I will look it up. Sounds great, I only need to fix my upload speed so it sounds perfect

[K4RBQT99]

I was thinking to add this feature for (only) firefox since a time ago. I noted that the DownThemAll extension (Fx8 compatible) have this feature (see the second screenshot), but, at least for me, the addon is an absolute overkill. Probably, seeing the bob99's post, I will end installing some OS-wide tool.