Firefox 3 has implemented a few new features on the Location Bar, which also known as Address Bar, to make it a Smart Location Bar, which now has been called by many as Awesome Bar. The new Smart Address Bar now combines recently visited sites, typed URLs, and also bookmarks to its results listing (if you don’t like the mixture, you can disable inclusion of bookmarks and recently visited pages from Location Bar matching results.)

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When attempting to copy and paste some text from web browser, text editor, word processor, spreadsheet, email client and any other applications, the following text will be pasted instead, regardless of what is the source text or what is been copied:

Text copying disabled.

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When browsing a web page which has lots of beautiful pictures, graphics, photos and images, or has embedded Flash video, or has attractive icons and other media components or elements, Firefox 3 can download and save all of these graphics and media on the web page altogether at once simultaneously, without any plugin, extension, add-on or third party programs.

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There are some Internet services and websites that is been restricted or viewable by visitors from continent of United States of America (USA), and most likely Canada only. Most of the restrictions are placed on video streaming contents which may subject to copyright, or sites that target specific audiences only.

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In some occasions when you click on an email link while browsing some webpages, you will be prompted with email clients such as Microsoft Window Mail for Vista or Microsoft Outlook Express for XP. If your email client has yet to be configured, you need to set up and configure it before you can send out emails. It is quite troublesome and inconvenient if you haven’t done so. Anyway, if you are Gmail and Firefox users, the good news is the new Firefox 3 allows users to configure and set Gmail as a default email client. This latest Firefox 3 comes with support YahooMail as default email client. For Gmail users, some setting needs to be done to edit the “mailto” application handler.

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Many programs put an icon in the system tray or notification area for easy and quick access, besides providing some progress indication or notification when needed. But not everybody appreciate the importance of systray. If you feel that notification system tray area is of no use to use, and you want to recover the bottom right space to make more room for Windows Taskbar, it’s possible to turn off and disable system tray with a simple registry hack.

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Hotspot Shield is essentially a free private secure VPN tunnel service that routes through a US server with USA location IP address. And thus, it has been used not only for security unencrypted wireless connection connected to public WiFi access point, but also been used as a tool to access websites restricted only to visitors from United States, or as a ‘proxy’ to surf anonymously or download shared files from RapidShare, MegaUpload, etc.

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MAC address (Media Access Control address) is a quasi-unique identifier consists of a six byte number that attached to most network adapter card or network interface card (NIC). As such, all network cards, whether it’s of Ethernet NIC, Gigabit Ethernet NIC or wireless 802.11a/b/g/n WiFi or HiperLAN adapter, should have different MAC addresses, which also known as Ethernet Hardware Address (EHA) or adapter address.

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