diff --git a/modules/libpref/init/all.js b/modules/libpref/init/all.js
index 6065eb5ee72b..5caa35539072 100644
--- a/modules/libpref/init/all.js
+++ b/modules/libpref/init/all.js
@@ -1384,7 +1384,7 @@ pref("network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy", 32);
 pref("network.http.request.max-start-delay", 10);
 
 // If a connection is reset, we will retry it max-attempts times.
-pref("network.http.request.max-attempts", 6);
+pref("network.http.request.max-attempts", 10);
 
 // Headers
 pref("network.http.accept.default", "text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8");