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• New mouse-based controls for common functions that are often invoked by shortcut keys in North America and Europe, which isn't as common a habit of Chinese users
• Some Maxthon-parity features such as the ability to close a tab using double-click
• A drop-down button on the toolbar for launching common system utilities like a calculator, a notepad, a screenshot grabber and an image editor (editing images and pasting screenshots is a very common activity in China). Maxthon is usually included on the CD with the pirated copy of Windows XP that many Chinese have installed.
• A new sidebar called "Live Margins" which allows the user to drag any highlighted text to open a new drill-down search which will show you semantically relevant content as well as allow you to store pictures, videos and music you encounter so you can return to it or play it from the sidebar without interrupting your usual browsing tasks. (This sidebar is also available as the Juice addon - for more info, see our review).  

I have an idea for new feature, let's call is "bookmark-reminder". I noticed that whenever I add bookmark, usually I want to return to this page with some specific reason in some specific time; for example to check on the responses in a forum thread in 1-2 days; or maybe check the status of an order placed in web store. But the problem is to remember it - when you participate in many forums, and visit many places, you forget about some you wanted to revisit. This gives an idea: it would be very useful to specify follow-up date along with the bookmark, and have Firefox somehow flash a reminder when the time comes. Seeing the reminder, the user probably would go to the bookmarked location, or postpone the reminder for future time. This would be similar to how Outlook shows follow-ups: you can then dismiss or postpone on future time.

Further, I think most bookmarks have limited lifespan. Using the example of forum discussion, probably in 1-2 weeks it will become irrelevant. Accordingly, it would be useful to easily remove the bookmark when further reminder is not necessary - an option like "don't remind any more, and remove the bookmark" would work.

I think most bookmarks are like these. The sites that I simply visit on regular basis, I don't make them bookmarks - instead, I start typing the address, and once it's instantly autocompleted, I press enter. This takes less milliseconds than going for bookmark. Or I have a shortcut on the desktop.

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