Tired of playing with this

[faithellen]

I've recently reloaded my mouse drivers because it was seizing up. It still seizes up, but I found a way around it.

Problem is, it's a two button mouse with a click wheel, and I used to have it set so that if I clicked a link with the wheel (within Firefox), it would open the link in a new tab.

Can anyone point me (get it? MOUSE JOKE!! okay, not a funny one) to fixing it?

Comments

[foolscap001.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. Middle click on a link opening a new tab is the standard behavior in Firefox. Unless you fiddled with the Firefox settings, it should still do that. To check, Edit>Preferences, select Tabbed Browsing and then "Tab Focus". The checkbox by

Load middle-clicked URLs in new tabs

should be checked.

If it isn't, check it and try it out. If it is, then something is fishy about the mouse setup. If you're using Windows, Start>Control Panel and then click on Mouse (I think...) and check what it is set to do.

[netsearcher.livejournal.com]

You have a wireless mouse, right? So you don't have to clean it's mouse ball. I'm not sure if there is anything that might need cleaning on a wireless mouse that would have an effect on performance.

[faithellen]

Firefox was set right, and the mouse was wrong -- I stupidly glossed over "middle button" when I was setting the stupid thing up.

It works now, yay!!! Thank you!

[foolscap001.livejournal.com]

A wireless mouse could still have a mechanical motion transducer, and hence have a ball...though all those I've seen have been optical.