Control Mozilla tabs with a programmable mouse
May 01, '02 01:35:56AM
Contributed by: twalkabout
Like a lot of other people, Mozilla's tabbed browsing feature is what made me switch. Now that Mircrosoft finally came out with a driver for the Intellimouse series, I was able to program it so that I can control the tabs with the mouse. This is how I set it up (I left the left and right button alone):
- Wheel Button: Command + Click
- Left Side Button: Control-page up
- Right Side Button: Control-page down
This way, when I press the wheel button, it opens up the link in a new tab. That's a lot easier than right clicking and waiting for the contextual menu to pop up. The control-page up/down is something I picked up from an earlier hint on this site -- it will switch to the previous or next tab.
Other alternatives could include setting one of the side buttons to close a tab (command-w). I don't know if Mozilla offers a command to cycle windows (although it is built into OS X under Full Keyboard Access in system prefs -- it just isn't activated yet). Of course, if I could figure out a way to get Mozilla to always open new tabs instead of windows (for example from SlashDock) then I wouldn't have to cycle windows anymore...
If anyone else has figured out a good way to program the mouse for Mozilla or other Apps, let me know.
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