None of my Dells (8500,8600,XPS or XPS Gen2) ever had a restore partition. You used to get all the disks needed to reinstall or like on some of the newer shipments there is a program that you run when you first get your laptop and it...
There is no easy way to disable it. If you can really live without it have you thought about possibly opening the case the disconnecting the wires for it.
Nope.
Its been requested on the Mozilla forums but it seems the devlopers are having problems figuring out the codes needed to make it work .. Funny they can't but other browsers can ..
Not sure if this will work on the Intel card ..
Go to Device Manager | Network Adapters
Double Click on your wireless card
Click on the Power Management Tab
Uncheck the box for "Allow the computer to turn off this device to...