Firefox 3.5 has a new “feature” that may allow web sites to more accurately pinpoint your location on the planet.  This feature is enabled by default.

When you visit a location-aware website, Firefox will ask you if you want to share your location.  You will have the opportunity to accept of decline this option.

But if you want to permanently disable this feature, do the following:

Open Firefox:

• In the URL bar, type about:config
• Type geo.enabled in the "Filter" box
• Double click on the geo.enabled preference so that it is set to “false”
• Location-Aware Browsing is now disabled

Source: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/geolocation/

Key loggers can be some of the most dangerous spyware one can have have on a computer.  They can capture every stroke you type, and that includes passwords and user names, account numbers and  credit card numbers.  Many of the creators of this nasty spyware claim that there software is undetectable.  Well, we don’t know if that is true, but true or not, there is a solution that may well save you from ID theft, bank account theft and many other potentially very serious problems caused by key loggers.

Give yourself some piece of mind and install KeyScrambler from http://www.qfxsoftware.com/.   The free version protects Internet Explorer and Firefox.  Paid versions are available that protect much more software, including Microsoft Office and numerous other programs.  We have been testing it for a couple of weeks and have found no problems.  We have not tested its ability to foil key loggers, but it comes with some good recommendations.   And we are going to give it ours also.  Check it out.