I recently switched, buying my first Mac--an iBook 900 running OS X of course--and so far I am very pleased with the experience. However, on my PC I was using Opera (
www.opera.com) as my primary browser, and devoloped a habit of navigating webpages mainly from the keyboard.. I'm finding Safari to be an excellent browser, but I have the occasional problem of not being able to re-focus the page after getting stuck in the address field. IF there are no form fields on the page, I can hit tab twice (once gets you into the google field) and I can scroll around using the arrow keys again.. but if there is a form, the cursor would move to the form field with no apparent easy way to get out. In IE and Opera for Windows you could hit ESC to get yourself out of the address bar quickly... is there a similar shortcut in Safari? I've read the keyboard shortcuts page for Safari and there doesn't seem to be a key that will restore focus to the page. Then again, page up/page down seems to work even without focusing the page, so I suppose I could learn to live with that.
If anybody knows a convenient way to refocus the page background with a key shortcut, please let me know. Thanks!
P.S. This is a great forum you have here. It's made my PC->Mac switch extremely smooth. Much appreciated.
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