diff --git a/browser/app/profile/firefox.js b/browser/app/profile/firefox.js
index 24d065739..048921af2 100644
--- a/browser/app/profile/firefox.js
+++ b/browser/app/profile/firefox.js
@@ -294,7 +294,7 @@ pref("browser.urlbar.maxRichResults", 6);
 // The amount of time (ms) to wait after the user has stopped typing
 // before starting to perform autocomplete.  50 is the default set in
 // autocomplete.xml.
-pref("browser.urlbar.delay", 100);
+pref("browser.urlbar.delay", 250);
 
 // The special characters below can be typed into the urlbar to either restrict
 // the search to visited history, bookmarked, tagged pages; or force a match on