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• Geek to Live: Top Firefox 2 config tweaks
• browser.startup.page key to 3 to restore your browsing session
• set the network.prefetch-next key to false.

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  1.Type "about:config" into the address bar and hit return. Scroll down and look for the following entries:

  
  

  
  network.http.pipelining network.http.proxy.pipelining network.http.pipelining.maxrequests

  
  

  
  Normally the browser will make one request to a web page at a time. When you enable pipelining it will make several at once, which really speeds up page loading.

  
  

  
  2. Alter the entries as follows:

  
  

  
  Set "network.http.pipelining" to "true"

  
  

  
  Set "network.http.proxy.pipelining" to "true"

  
  

  
  Set "network.http.pipelining.maxrequests" to some number like 30. This means it will make 30 requests at once.

  
  

  
  3. Lastly right-click anywhere and select New-> Integer. Name it "nglayout.initialpaint.delay" and set its value to "0". This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it receives.

  
  

  
  

• ayout.spellcheckDefault=2 will enable spellcheck for text inputs, not just textareas