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Firefox: Mozilla successfully rethinks its browser
Authored by: fds on Feb 24, '04 12:48:06PM

If only I could open links in a new tab clicking the middle mouse button. :(

Like I could in Safari, or in Firefox on Windows, for that matter. No, I'm not willing to reprogram my middle button to simulate a keypress instead just for Firefox on Mac OS X.



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Agreed!
Authored by: stewby on Feb 24, '04 03:27:29PM

That drove me insane after about a minute of giving Firefox a try as a Camino replacement, and I had to give up that idea. I was hoping I was just missing something, but I couldn't find anything that explained why it doesn't work.

Firefox is definitely my browser of choice on Windows, but the lack of middle-clicking makes it unusable for me as a Mac browser.



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Works for me?
Authored by: broderik on Feb 25, '04 08:57:37AM

I don't know anything special that I did.... but my middle click (aka scroll wheel) does exactly that with Firefox... (open links in a new tab)



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Firefox: Mozilla successfully rethinks its browser
Authored by: jsebrech on Feb 25, '04 12:17:41PM

Type about:config in the url bar and see if browser.tabs.opentabfor.middleclick is set to true. Change it of not (and possibly restart the browser, though I'm not sure about that).



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Firefox: Mozilla successfully rethinks its browser
Authored by: rajulkabir on Aug 30, '04 04:09:11AM

In my Firefox (0.9), browser.tabs.opentabfor.middleclick was already set to true and the middle button doesn't work (does work in Safari). So I'm not sure that there's anything else I can do, but like the other poster, this is a show-stopper for me. 50% of the time I click a link I want it in a new tab, and doing the little contextual menu thing is way too slow, especially when I'm opening 8 or 10 at a time (news articles off news.google.com or something).

Guess I'm staying with Safari...



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Firefox: Mozilla successfully rethinks its browser
Authored by: Wuffty on Dec 03, '04 07:33:30AM

Hmm, what about when this entry doesn't exists ??

I could not find it in my preferences (about:config). Maybe it is possible to simply add it?

Wuffty



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