Trackpoint Middle Button and Tabs in Firefox

On a regular desktop mouse, when you click the middle button on a link in firefox, it opens up the link in a new tab. and when you click a tab on the tab bar in firefox, it automatically closes the tab

i use this function alot and i was just wondering if there is any way to make the trackpoint middle button be the same as the middle click of a regular desktop mouse

 

Neat discovery there. Great for stubborn websites like Wikipedia that refuses to open links in a new tab with a left-click unless you click it in combination with the ctrl key, unlike enlightened sites like NBR.

For me, my middle mouse and middle TrackPoint buttons behaves the same as you described for Firefox.

I usually use a Microsoft Wireless Notebook Laser Mouse 6000 with Vista's generic HID mouse driver together with a gel wrist support mouse pad for better ergonomics, which I always pack along with my lappy and ThinkPad AC adaptor. It never fails to bring a smile to my face whenever I see the bulky, heavy bricks of the other brands. I've no need to install that mouse's driver since ThinkPads already have an On-Screen Magnifier via Fn-spacebar.

Why not a Bluetooth mouse, some may ask, since my lappy supports bluetooth? Well... at the time I bought my mouse, I thought a RF mouse would be handy in a situation when I need it on a desktop. Although I sometimes wonder if I'd be better off with a Bluetooth mouse to save a USB port, I was glad I was able to whip out my RF laser mouse when a desktop machine I needed to access had its wired mouse missing. Desktop aren't equipped with Bluetooth as a rule.

So I'm happy.

 

BUMP!

I have often wondered the same thing but never took time to look into it. I will definitely watch this thread for some suggestions!!

 

This works flawless for me in IE8 (I’ll give Firefox a try again after they modernized and use multiple processes for browsing).

 

I have Vista 32 Business & Firefox 3.0, but ex-mouse (if that matters), and the middle button simply works in that way. :confused2:
But I also remember it used to be an issue in an early version of FF...

 

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anyone find a solution?

 

Go to trackpoint settings in mouse in control panel, click on settings for scrolling, select "smooth" (instead of standard). Click OK. There you go. Middle button = open new tab.

 

AH YES
thank you very much

 

Anybody has an idea how to get a "regular" trackpoint scrolling (with middle button pressed down) AND a functioning middle mouse button? No option for that in drivers GUI... A registry hack perhaps... ?

 

I assign additional buttons on the left handset, as middle button on my logitech G9.

 

I use my trackpoint's middle button to scroll and to open new links in tabs/close open tabs in the firefox tool bar.

Just play around with the trackpoint settings. I didn't do anything special, but i don't remember precisely what I did as I set it when i first got my thinkpad.

 

i've been playing around with the trackpoint settings for a while now... when i select "smooth" as a method of scrolling middle button works but... scrolling doesn't, at least not in firefox (and few other places), besides i don't like the way smooth scrolling works anyway

not a big issue for me, i've only been testing windows 7 and was wondering if i can get that sort of functionality, looks like i cannot, no problem

 

What's funny is that I can get the desired behavior in Ubuntu (I can scroll with the Trackpoint middle button held down *and* click it to open a page in a new tab) but not in Windows. It's not often that Linux beats Windows in usability.