Blogging messes up my IE address bar.

When writing my blog, I end up putting a lot of links to stuff on the net.  To get the links, I navigate to the page, and select the link in the IE address bar and cut&paste it into Outlook’s compose form (sometimes I need to open in a new window to ensure that I have a good link, but…).  It works pretty well, except for one drawback…

Apparently, it appears that when you highlight a url and copy it to the clipboard, the control that IE’s using to run the “Address” combo box decides that the copy-to-clipboard action was SO important that it needs to add the URL being highlighted to the list of sites that comes down when you open the combo box.

Since I use that combo box as a sort-of “shorter-than-favorite” bookmark list, it means that the list quickly gets filled up with junky urls that I don’t care about.  It can get very frustrating, especially since the list in the combo box is so short (about 40 entries) – the sites I care about quickly get dropped off the list and the address bar combo box is useless.

FWIW, Firefox doesn’t do this, but I’m not yet ready to switch…