Internet Tricks My Cat Taught Me
The other day I was streaming a video on the internet. My cat was sitting on top of my monitor ( I still have a CRT ) as she is wont to do and batting at Hiro. ( I was watching Heroes on NBC.com ) Now I have a problem with streaming videos sometimes. Although I can maximize the videos, I still get the title bar of internet explorer, and my Google Search bar appearing, which can be slightly distracting at times.
Well any way my cat suddenly decided it as time to pounce. She leaped from the monitor on top of my keyboard, landing on a dozen keys at once. All of a sudden my internet explorer maximized the rest of the way. The title bar disappeared and I just say the show. I was mad at the cat, but I was thrilled that I could do that.
So I started pushing buttons on my keyboard while I had internet explorer open in order to see if I could duplicate it. Eventually I did.
Here are some of the internet explorer hotkeys that I found while I was pushing buttons
F11 - View Internet explorer in full screen, i.e. no title bar or menu bars
F1 - Help Menu
F3 - Find on this page
F4 - Web address pull down menu
F5 - Reload Page
F6 - Tab between menu bar options
F10 - Bring up IE 6 style File, Edit, View, Favorites menu bar
Alt & F4 - Close window. Don’t do this one by accident.
I had some fun finding these out. Are there any that you use that I missed?
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