I think the three applications that most people are likely to have open all the time are a web browser, email, and instant messaging.
In every major browser I’m aware of, Command-L highlights the address bar so you can type in the URL of a site, which I do constantly. Command-L, Command-L, Command-L, all day long. Apple’s iChat IM client has an annoying conflict: Command-L signs you out. This is a problem if you’re switching rapidly between browser and IM (which at least I do frequently) and think your browser is in the foreground but it’s really iChat, you hit Command-L and get logged out.
Apple could be right to expect people to pay more attention, but this happens regularly to almost everyone I know who uses iChat, so at least in my experience, it’s a widespread problem.
Proposed solution: change the Log Out of AIM keyboard shortcut.
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Or just don’t use Ichat.
It blows. Use any of the million other variants.
Except that unlike the millions of other variants, file transfers often work!