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>middle click a link
>it doesn't just fucking open in a new tab
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>>890038 (OP)
99% of people don't even know that you can click with the scroll wheel, let alone that clicking links with it does something.
▶ No.890047
everyone who has posted in this thread and will post in this thread are cancer. I am no exception.
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>middle click in a text box
>it doesn't just fucking paste from my primary clipboard
▶ No.890056>>890090
>middle click
>there is no middle button
>pressing right and left buttons at the same time doesn't work as a middle click
▶ No.890059>>890159 >>890189 >>891296 >>891299 >>891359
>press scroll lock
<scrolling functionality completely unaffected
>press pause button
<process does not suspend
▶ No.890090>>890284
>>890056
>>there is no middle button
What did he mean by this?
▶ No.890112
>middle click
Lol, nerd, trackpads only register clicks on either the left or right side
▶ No.890115>>891308
>>890038 (OP)
>middle click a link
>autoscroll goes crazy
▶ No.890128
>middle click
>the webpage refreshes and scrolls all the way back to the top so I lose my reading place
▶ No.890130
Anon, how do dis? Pic related.
▶ No.890131>>890138 >>890139 >>891414
Remember when mice had 3 buttons? Not 2 buttons and a clickable scroll wheel, but 3 actual identical buttons.
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>>890131
They had a ball which you had to clean every month.
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>>890059
this is truly the mind of the noble computer user.
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>>890059
>There's no scroll lock
▶ No.890199
>>890038 (OP)
Hi /g/. Please consider lurking more before posting to /tech/ again. We are a different culture than 4chan. Thank you.
▶ No.890272>>891315 >>891366 >>891415
>middle click a link
>opens blank tab with javascript:void() in the URL bar
▶ No.890284
>>890090
Probably an Apple PC
▶ No.891296
>>890059
>expecting ancient, obsolete and long-forgotten things to still work like in the 80s
I bet you expected sysrq to do something peculiar too, didn't you
▶ No.891299
>>890059
>$CURRENTYEAR
<basically none of ASCII control codes (except for a handful like newline/carriage return etc.) don't work in an overwhelming majority of contexts as they did back in the 1960s when ASCII was introduced
wew, what a surprise
▶ No.891308
>>890115
>middle click a link (expecting it to open in a new tab)
>pic related appears instead
think I found your most likely problem
▶ No.891315
>>890272
This post triggered my PTSD
▶ No.891320
>have pic related
>no wheel
>buttons are mouse 1, 2, 4, 5
>some stupid game uses mouse 3 and won't let you remap
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>>890059
Just "Reboot in DOS Mode(tm)".
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▶ No.891371
>>890038 (OP)
sounds like javascript to me. they change the url to javascript:void(0)
▶ No.891414
>>890131
Did the middle button actually ever do anything anywhere before it was subsumed by the mouse wheel?
▶ No.891415>>891510
>>890272
>hover mouse over link
>"javascript.void()" appears at the bottom of the browser window, where the link target URL would appear
>he's surprised a blank "javascript.void()" page opens in a new tab
What were you expecting? A "nice try anon but you're supposed to follow this link directly" message?
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>>891325
Please don't tell me you just learned what middle-clicking links (usually) does.
▶ No.891444>>891448
>hover over a link
>page layout changes
>link goes off the cursor
>page layout changes back
>repeat
simply ebin
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>middle click
>paste primary clipboard content as expected
▶ No.891469>>891500
>having more than one mouse button
for what purpose?
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>middle click drag
>it doesn't just fucking autoscroll
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>>891453
>middle click
>new tab opens
>it tries to go to what is contained in my primary clipboard
▶ No.891497
>>890038 (OP)
>OP image literally /b/-tier, could that possibly be a harbinger of an similar quality thread
(You) know one when you see it
▶ No.891499
>middle click autism thread
What do you do to have the middle button on a thinkpad work to both emulate scroll wheel (if moving trackpoint while pressed) AND work as a normal middle button (when clicked without touching the trackpoint)?
▶ No.891500>>891528
>>891469
>found the applel brainlet
>they still haven't evolved beyond the stage where a purpose for multiple mouse buttons is impenetrable to their narrowminded disposition
▶ No.891510
>>891415
Consider not missing the point next time. If the site uses some JS to handle a button click it's most likely AIDS.
>>891490
Haven't seen that in a while. IIRC there's some option to turn that off in firecox, maybe middlemouse.contentLoadURL in about.config
▶ No.891528
>>891500
you will never need more than 1 mouse button