Is there any way to get the functionality outta clicking the scroll wheel in web browsers that windows has? It gives you that little circle with 4 arrows pointing in a Plus shape, and you could speed scroll up and down with it.

I don't think what you want is possible, as middle button click in X is used to paste. Personally, I prefer paste over scrolling, it's much more useful.

Well i guess tis whatever its set as, for me middle button tries to open whatever the mouse is hovering over in another window, and if its not a link, it gives a message that it cant.

Of course there is. If you be more specific (on e.g., the browser), we might be able to help you.

Oh, Iceweasle/Firefox. Diddnt think that mattered, was under the impression that it was a generic driver software thing, not something made individually for specific software.

Well, there’s a difference in some mozilla browsers. The middle-click-to-paste is a generic capability for all X programs (in this case, highlighting text puts in a “copy buffer”, and middle clicking pastes the text of this buffer into a text field). Most mozilla-based browsers additionally use middle-click on a hyperlink to open it in a new tab or window.

Some mozilla-based browsers hijack middle-click to have one more capability: if the middle click is in an content part of the page, the contents of the copy buffer are assumed to be a URL and it is loaded. You can disable this feature in firefox or seamonkey (or their offshoots) by toggling the middlemouse.contentLoadURL preference in about:config. (Note that this allows you to keep paste functionality for text fields.)