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Recent folders list. Click the at the right end of the address bar

to see a drop-down menu of addresses you’ve recently typed.

Figure 2-7. The address bar is crawling with useful controls and clickable gizmos. It may
take you awhile to appreciate the difference between the little to the left of the address

bar and the to its right, though. The left-side one shows a list of folders you’ve had
open recently; the right-side one shows addresses you’ve explicitly typed (and not passed
through by clicking).

Up ( ). This delightful button, right next to the address bar, means
“Open the parent folder of this one.” It’s a novice-friendly
incarnation of the trusty Alt+ keystroke.

For example, if you’ve drilled down into the USA Texas
Houston folder, you could hit this button (or Alt+ to pop

“upward” to the Texas folder, again for the USA folder, and so on.
If you hit enough times, you wind up at your desktop.

Contents list. This one takes some explaining, but for efficiency
nuts, it’s a gift from the gods.

It turns out that the little next to each folder name is actually a

drop-down menu. Click it to see what’s in the folder name to its
left.