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Access Safari's site nav drop-down via a mouse click Web Browsers
As described in this previous hint, you can navigate a site's structure in Safari by command-clicking the title bar.

I accidentally discovered that you can get the same behavior by clicking the title bar with the middle button/scroll wheel of a two-button scroll wheel mouse. While many other apps (Finder, Preview, TextEdit, etc.) use the title bar command-click, the scroll-wheel-click method seems to be unique to Safari.
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Access Safari's site nav drop-down via a mouse click
Authored by: garythemacguy on Apr 05, '06 01:57:22PM

I think this depends on whether or not you have reprogrammed your buttons. I have a "Microsoft Wireless Optical Mouse 2" and the software permits me to set the middle button (ie the dual function scroll wheel) to produce a plain double click. Use that on the Safari title and the window disappears into the Dock.

I suspect that the default setting for your mouse is to apply a command-click when you click the scroll wheel / button.



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Access Safari's site nav drop-down via a mouse click
Authored by: qwerty denzel on Apr 05, '06 11:25:43PM

It is only a command click inside the Safari window (note that dragging does not seem to work, it only acts as a click).
Outside of Safari, it just performs the default third-button (scroll-button) click in Cocoa applications; and a normal [left/single button] click, with the ability to drag, in Carbon apps (Finder, Dock).



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Access Safari's site nav drop-down via a mouse click
Authored by: teszeract on Apr 09, '06 05:24:31PM

this one can be classed as "gem"



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This is neat
Authored by: anoved on Dec 20, '06 10:26:58AM

I serendipitously discovered Safari's Command-click title bar functionality yesterday, and this just kicks it up a notch. Neat.



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