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    Use of middle-button in Mouse

    hello friends,

    In mouse, everybody knows the use and significance of left-click button and right-click button. But the middle-buuton apart from scrolling is also being pressed but don't know for what it is used ? So I want to know the different uses and significance of middle-button in mouse apart from scrolling. Can anybody provide the useful tips.

    thnx

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    Re: Use of middle-button in Mouse

    If you are using Mozilla Firefox, you can use the middle mouse button clicks to -

    * open a tab
    * close a tab

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    Re: Use of middle-button in Mouse

    You can also change the action you want to perform using the middle mouse button.

    For this, you need to go to Control Panel - Mouse. Here you will find the functions that middle-mouse button ia able to perform. You can then select the function you want and middle mouse button will perform exactly that action on clicking it.

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    Re: Use of middle-button in Mouse

    The middle mouse button includes special features. There are few settings you can make through about:config (type about:config in the address bar and hit enter):

    middlemouse.contentLoadURL - If you set this to true, when you click the middle mouse button, Firefox will load the clipboard content as a URL. For Linux, this setting is true by default, but seems like doesn’t work for Windows.

    middlemouse.openNewWindow - By default, this is set to true, which will open a new tab when you middle click on a URL.

    middlemouse.paste - By default, this is set to false. If you set to true, click the middle button will paste your clipboard content to the text box.

    Apart from this, you can also close any tab page by use the middle mouse button which is already mentioned.

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    Re: Use of middle-button in Mouse

    Here are 2 of my favourite tips :

    Middle mouse button + Ctrl
    Press the Control (Ctrl) button and -
    Scroll the mouse wheel backward to increase Firefox's font size. Scroll it forward to decrease the font size.

    Middle mouse button + Shift
    Press the Shift button and -
    Scroll the mouse wheel forward to move a page forward. Scroll backwards to go the previous page.

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