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Access Safari's Find on Page via a Kensington mouse Web Browsers
Left-click and right-click at the same time on the title bar. I have a Kensington mouse-in-a-box pro, but I believe it should work with other three-button mice. When you do this, up pops the Find on Page search box.

[robg adds: This doesn't work on my Microsoft Optical Mouse; on my mouse, the left-and-right click on the title bar seems to be interpreted as a double-click, as the window then minimizes. If anyone else can confirm that this is standard behavior with Kensington (or other) mice, please post a comment...]
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Access Safari's Find on Page via a Kensington mouse
Authored by: MichaelD on May 17, '04 12:27:20PM

Actually, if you install Kensington's Mouseworks software, you can program the buttons to do all sorts of things. I have a 5 button mouse and when I chord (press at the same time) the left and right mouse buttons, it activated expose. Chording the side buttons quits the program, and pressing the scroll button sends an option-click, opening a link in a new tab behind the window I'm currently viewing. Really, the possibilities are endless, and Mouseworks let's you set up application specific options.



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Access Safari's Find on Page via a Kensington mouse
Authored by: brising on May 17, '04 12:27:52PM

Kensington mice (better: the mouse drivers) understand a simultaneous left-right click which they call "chording". It can be assigned actions just like any other mouse click.



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Access Safari's Find on Page via a Kensington mouse
Authored by: Ezra Balaraj on May 17, '04 01:48:13PM

It worked for me! I'm using the Kensington Pocket Mouse.

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Access Safari's Find on Page via a Kensington mouse
Authored by: josephh on May 17, '04 02:15:46PM

The default in Mouseworks for right-left corded clicking is command+F. You can, of course change that to anything you want.



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Access Safari's Find on Page via a Kensington mouse
Authored by: geohar on May 17, '04 04:24:34PM

So it is, which I feel a little daft for not having realised why it worked. I assumed this was a Safari thing.



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Access Safari's Find on Page via a Kensington mouse
Authored by: Crusty on May 17, '04 06:53:57PM

This also works on the latest beta of OmniWeb 5 (6.1 as of now).



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Access Safari's Find on Page via a Kensington mouse
Authored by: bnrpasich on May 17, '04 06:57:30PM

This also works on my Kensington Iridio USB Mouse



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Access Safari's Find on Page via a Kensington mouse
Authored by: plbogart on May 17, '04 08:47:32PM

Yep. Works on my Optical Elite as well.



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Access Safari's Find on Page via a Kensington mouse
Authored by: jamesflach on May 17, '04 09:19:51PM

Seems to work for me regardless of where I click in a Safari window. Also, if I "chord" in a Finder window it brings up the Finder's Find dialog.



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Kensington Chord to Hide
Authored by: marklander on May 18, '04 10:26:55AM

I find these settings very useful:

A Chord on my mouse sends cmd H which Hides the active Application;
the middle mouse button sends a cmd Tab to "Toggle Apps";
the three Expose modes are activated by using either the cmd (desktop), opt (application windows), or control (all windows) key with a right-click. While easy to activate, you wont do it accidentally.



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