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[Jesse Becker]

On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 16:42, Alan McConnell <alan at patriot.net> wrote:
> 1.  I asked about how to clear the "location bar" at the top
> of the browser.  Several solutions were given.  What works for
> me is:  swipe the URL(say from an E-mail or from lynx) that you
> wish to put into said loc-bar, then hit Ctl-L, which will hilight
> what was in the loc-bar;  then hit the Backspace which will get
> rid of the hilighted stuff, and finally Third Button the mouse
> which will put the desired URL into the desired place.

I've found that for just about every drop-down box that has pre-filled
values (location bars, form elements, search boxes, etc), if you
highlight an entry and press shift-delete, it will remove it from the
cache.

This is most useful for clearing out those annoying typos for things
like http://googgle.com/. [1]

[1] Unless you really want to get a "Free iPod"

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Jesse Becker
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