Hacking Gmail

Part I — Starting to Use Gmail
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3-1: The keyboard shortcuts checkbox
Save the settings, and you will find that the bottom of your Inbox screen has
changed to show some of the keyboard shortcut commands, as shown in Figure 3-2.
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3-2: The bottom of the Inbox with keyboard 
shortcuts turned on
To see what keyboard shortcuts are about, press the c key now. Immediately, the
page changes to the Compose Message window, with your cursor in the 
To:
addressing area. Type an e-mail address, and then press Tab. Your cursor moves to
the Subject line. Type something, and hit Tab again, and you’re in the message
box. So far so good. Now a snag. Hit Tab again, and then Enter, and in Internet
Explorer your message is sent. In any other browser — Firefox, say — the final tab
puts your cursor up into the search box. Hitting Enter brings up a warning box
(shown in Figure 3-3) asking if you are willing to lose the newly typed, and
unsaved, message.