[gui-talk] In IE7, Favorites list won't go away when I hit Escape, anymore

[David Andrews]

I display favorites with alt-a, control-i displays a tree view which 
I find less convenient.

Dave

p.s.  The alt-a view does go away with escape.

Dave

At 06:40 PM 1/22/2009, you wrote:
>The subject line says it all. If I put up the Favorites list with Control I,
>and then decide not to click on any of its items, hitting Escape will no
>longer get rid of it and leave me on the Web page where I was before I
>brought up the list.
>I'm mystified. I'll confess that my browser has also developed some other
>bad issues, like no longer being able to access slate.com at all, requiring
>that I type wwww before latimes.com to go to that site even though it used
>to go there if I just typed latimes.com, and a couple of other nasty things.
>
>I'll also say that I know that Firefox is there for the taking, and that
>since I guess you can't just do a repair on Internet Explorer, or uninstall
>and reinstall it. I think it's integrated into my XP Home O.S.
>
>
>But I haven't been well, and sorry if this sounds wimpy, but the time and
>concentration I'm pretty sure it would require for me to educate myself
>about Firefox, learn how to install it, copy my Favorites to it, install
>some sort of add-ons or whatever they're called that enhance its operation
>with Jaws, that is just too much stuff for me to want to deal with these
>days. We're talking not only a benign brain tumor that's disrupted my
>balance and makes my head throb constantly, but also congestive heart
>failure and me facing a surgery in a few days to receive an ICD implanted in
>my chest.
>
>So my wishful thinking is that someone may be able to say something like
>"Oh, that happened to me once. Just hit these keys and the Favorites list
>will disappear." But otherwise, I have to just exit the browser, or at least
>exit that tab page or incidence of IE. Pretty inconvenient, compared too the
>way it used to work.
>
>
>any thoughts? If it sounds as if my copy of Internet Explorer is just
>terminally screwed up, and only migrating to Firefox will restore my
>previous browser functionality, okay. I'll just deal with the Firefox thing
>when I can.
>
>thanks,
>Joel
>
>
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