Top 10 Reasons to Use Firefox 3

[1] The Best Firefox Yet - With more than 15,000 improvements, Firefox 3 is faster, safer and smarter than ever before.
[2] Performance -Short and sweet, Firefox now uses less of your computer’s memory while it’s running. and A redesigned page rendering and layout engine means you see Web pages faster—and in the way they were meant to be seen.Improved text rendering is just the beginning of the benefits of an all new graphic engine for Firefox 3.
[3] Smart Location Bar - A quick way to get to the sites with addresses you only vaguely remember. The new Firefox 3 location bar learns as you use it. Over time, it adapts to your preferences and offers better fitting matches. Type in a term and the autocomplete function includes possible [...]matching sites from your browsing history, as well as sites you’ve bookmarked and tagged in a drop down. For example, you could enter: “Phone” to find “www.apple.com”.And Bingo.
[4] Security & Privacy - If you are worried or not sure about site’s legitimacy before you make a transaction? Click on a site favicon for an instant identity overview.
[5] Search Suggestions - Start typing in the search bar and it will prompt you with a drop down of filled-in suggestions, plus you can use the search bar as a calculator and converter .
[6] Tabs : Simple and easy, you can think of them as the electronic version of a well kept filing cabinet, with the tabs as the dividers and the sites as the content kept in folders. Each new site appears as a new tab (not a new window) and can be accessed in one click. Features like : * Save on Exit* Reopen Closed Tabs* Drag &amp * Reorder Tabs* Smooth Scrolling
[7] Zoom In, Zoom Out : You can Zoom in and Zoom out of a Page. Look at a Image up close. [CTRL + (+/-)]
[8] Tag’em All - After buildding up a large list of bookmarks, keeping track of them all can get a little messy. To stay organized, you can assign tags to your bookmarked sites: just double-click on the star icon and you’ll be prompted to enter your tags.
[9] Localization: You can download it in Gujarati and Punjabi also.
[10] Still want more take a tour on Mozilla website video .

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Restoring Deleted Files

So you have accidentally deleted those pictures from your vacation last summer, and the recycle bin has been emptied. Are your files gone for good? They may not be. While Microsoft tries to tell you that emptying the recycling bin permanently deletes your files, the truth is that Windows simply marks the file as deleted, and treats the space that it occupies as free. The data is not actually removed from the drive at this time. Thus until a new file is written onto that space, you have the chance to recover the deleted files.

It is important to differentiate between steps for recovering deleted files and partitions and the steps you need to take if there is physical damage to your drive. If your hard drive has is making strange noises, shaking, rattling or smoking, then there is no software fix that will resolve your problems. You need to turn your computer off immediately, remove the hard drive and call a data recovery service if your files are vital.

Whenever you realize that you have lost data, the first thing to remember is not write anything more to the hard drive. The more data that is written to the hard drive after the accidental deletion of files means that there is a greater probability that the lost data will be gone forever.

The first step is to visit the recycling bin to see if the missing files are there. If that is the case, it is a simple procedure to move the files from the recycling bin to the main portion of your file system. If you were careful with your computer set up, you may have installed a program like Norton SystemWorks to protect yourself from viruses. Programs like this often include automatic backups. You will need to check with the software documentation to see how to recover any files from the backup archive.

If Windows cannot help you find your missing files, you will want to consider using data recovery software. There are many packages out there. Some are shareware, and a couple are even freeware. At this time we will not begin to review the many data recovery software solutions that exist. Suffice it to say that quality data recovery software can retrieve at least part of your missing data with a comparatively high frequency. It will also include utilities for searching for and organize the missing data, so that you do not need to wade through a list of everything that has been deleted from your computer since you purchased it.

A more serious problem results when a partition containing needed files has been deleted. You do not want to attempt to create a new partition. Your data is probably still there. Creating a new partition will wipe it out completely. Data recovery software may be able to recover files lost when a partition was deleted. You can either run the software on another partition, or in the case of a complete hard drive wipeout, you will want to either install another hard drive or remove the problem drive and reinstall it in another computer.

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