I found this blog post: A handful of Firefox tweaks that will double your browser speed through one of tweets that came my way yesterday. You may find it useful if you use Firefox browser like I do and have encountered slowness when loading pages. Is it my imagination or does my Firefox load a lot more quickly after the changes have been made? 
There are, however, some limitations in some of the changes which are not mentioned in above post. For example, the pipelining is not supported by all servers. Some servers may even function incorrectly if they receive pipelined requests.
All other Firefox tweaks can be found at Tweaking Preferences of MozillaZine.
Enjoy blazing speed! Fingers crossed.
Tags: Firefox, tweak
Ubiquity is the FireFox extension allowing you to perform tasks including wiki, map, dictionary, etc., while still staying on the same web page (instead of having to jump around pages).
Even though it is still in version 0.1.x, there is a quite number of commands (at Ubiquity Herd and Ubiquity In The Wild) being developed to use it.
Couple of them are developed as search tools for Oracle -
The first one “oradoc” (I like the most) is developed by Eddie Awad. With preview feature, it is easier to filter out information.
The second one “tahiti” is from Don Seiler at the Pythian group. This one has no preview. Thus upon pressing “Enter”, it will redirect to Oracle’s Tahiti site.
Last one “search-oracle-docs” from Mayuresh Kadu’s blog site is similar to that of Tahiti – no preview but redirected to the OTN’s documentation site.
Tags: Browser, Firefox, ubiquity
