Have you customized Google by using the Preferences link? Have these settings gone awol? Once? Twice? All the time? The solution seem to be totally missing (and in the hands of Google’s developers) unless you use Firefox. Install this and you should be OK.

When installing an attachment in Firefox, you get a delay if the package you install from is unsigned. And I have never, ever seen a signed one. If you do a lot of installing of packages and if you know what you install you can turn this off. Here is how:

1. Type about:config and press Enter. (Optionally, open a new tab first if you do not redirect new URLs into new tabs)
2. Enter security.dialog_enable_delay in Filter or scroll down to it. The list is alphabetic
3. Double-click it and change the value to 0
4. Close about:config

You no longer have to wait when installing.

Source: Daily Gyan: How To Disable Extension Install Delay In Firefox

If you have set the preference in Tools - Options - Tabbed Browsing - User preferences - When loading new tabs, load the... to anything else than Blank, and you receive updates to extensions, your setting will be reset to Blank. Load C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\greprefs\all.js in your favourite editor and edit line 168 from pref("browser.tabs.loadOnNewTab", 0); to, say, pref("browser.tabs.loadOnNewTab", 1);

Note: After a browser update (that is, Firefox itself receives an update) you must reset this line again.

Reference: Mozilla

Mozilla Firefox has the ability to automatically look up information for you using a specific website. You write your mnemonic and the info you want checked in the location toolbar (where you normally type the name of a webpage) and Firefox takes care of the rest.

Here is how to put it all together:

1. Navigate to the webpage you want to use
2. Click the field you want
3. Right-click and select “Add a keyword for this search…” from the dropdown menu
4. Add a name you wish to use and the the keyword you will type before your search item – and (say, imdb) find a place to save your new search bookmark
5. Press OK and you are done

Now, just type your imdb xyzzy where xyzzy is the search item you want Firefox to check – and there you go!