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12-10-2004, 07:42 PM
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Middle mouse button takes me to strange websites?
Another one of these what does this mean questions. After surfing on my regular forums and websites for a while, every so often I will hit the middle mouse button by accident and it takes me to some strange website that I have never visited. How does that happen?
Slack 10, using Firefox 1.0
Last edited by BajaNick; 12-10-2004 at 07:49 PM.
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12-10-2004, 07:52 PM
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its the pr0n button. lol.
it does something. im not sure what, but it goes to a certain link in the current page. im not sure which one htough or how it determines which one it goes to.
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12-10-2004, 08:31 PM
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I have my middle mouse button set up so if I click a link with it the link opens in a new tab in the background.
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12-10-2004, 08:36 PM
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me too, but try clickingon some whitespace, it will load up something . im not sure what htough.
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12-10-2004, 08:37 PM
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12-10-2004, 09:00 PM
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It's supposed to grab a url from your clipboard, but...you know how these things go.
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12-10-2004, 10:31 PM
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ive never heard of that page before in my life.
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12-10-2004, 11:06 PM
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If you're talking about Mozilla Firefox:
I think it's supposed to do the "Back" operation or something. But help file says:
Close tab: Middle click on tab
Paste URL and go: Middle click on Tab
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12-10-2004, 11:34 PM
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It pastes the clipboard/selected text to the url bar and goes there, it's VERY annoying, kill it with about :config |
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12-10-2004, 11:38 PM
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so its basically a google im feeling lucky search?
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12-11-2004, 12:01 AM
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After signing the ATI petition, Thanks nuka_t, I did a middle mouse click and went to here.
http://margaretcho.net/blog/
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12-11-2004, 12:03 AM
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lmao.
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12-11-2004, 01:03 AM
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Your mouse's middle-button *KNOWS* what you need , better that you do yourself.....  |
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12-11-2004, 11:34 AM
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Quote:
Originally posted by Megamieuwsel
Your mouse's middle-button *KNOWS* what you need , better that you do yourself.....
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lol. i think that might have something to do with something you told me in a certain other thread.  |
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12-11-2004, 01:54 PM
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The mid mouse button pastes as URL the text saved in the clipboard. I find this useful, because often people supply web adresses not formated as links. Instead of copy+paste it is more easy for to select the text and press the scroll button of my mouse which acts also as a mid button.
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