A little post script here: I used Control L for a couple of hours, and then my grandson(19 next week) showed up. I told him about the "no address bar" problem. He put his hand on the mouse and before I could walk across the room, the address bar was back. I think I will still use Control L a lot, because some of the places I surf don't have an address bar, and others are things I don't want to close out.
Howard

> > By the way, if you want to type in the URL, you can always try Ctrl+L. In Mozilla Firefox, that puts you in the address bar, and on IE, that gives you a kind of pop-up box where you can enter in the URL. (I'm not quite sure if that works on other browsers, but it should be universal.) I'm pretty sure you can also change the settings to find the address bar again.
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> > ~Crystal109
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> Thanks. You've saved the day again. That works just fine.
> Howard