Wish: Bookmarks dropdown a la IE and Firefox
It's handy, to have a dropdown menu of bookmark names (I don't need to seed full URIs) as in, IE and Firefox. This would eliminate the hassle of going back and forth to a "bookmarks page."
(Of course, I hope you will forgive me if I am posting a wish for a function which is already available but which I have not yet discovered how to use...)
Rob,
I've just read your post twice, the first time round I would have suggested re-installing Safari, however I have noticed something the second time round. I believe that your problems lie not with Safari but with your mouse! You mentioned nothing happening when you click bookmarks and getting a drop down menu, that sounds like a Windows right click to me! The equivalent of hitting ctrl+click in OS X. You need to try to navigate to the mouse section in control panel and reverse the buttons (or if you have two button functionality on your mouse try clicking the other button!). As to your learning Windows XP, the best way I found was experimenting, but I have done that for years, it takes patience as you can see things are very different from Mac underneath! But try googling "learn about xp". I had a quick look at the first few sites to come up and they looked reasonable, even dare I say it, Microsofts own! Email me if you have any more questions and you don't want to wait for the forum! I would be happy to help. [email protected]
P.S. Don't forget the boot camp icon in the lower right corner, click that and you should be able to get boot camp help!
Jamie
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