Comments on: Firefox Tip: Middle Mouse Click Opens Link in New Tab

By: George

George — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 02:51:30 +0000

That is awesome it actually works.

By: JesterXL

JesterXL — Tue, 15 Nov 2005 22:45:46 +0000

You could try like:

function onEnterFrame()
{
if(Key.isDown(4))
{
trace(’true’);
}
}

And then where the trace is, detect if the middle-mouse click was at the location of the link. Un-efficient as hell, though.

By: dominic

dominic — Tue, 15 Nov 2005 22:39:39 +0000

A friend of mine develops a forum that has a flash-based interface and he can’t figure out how to get the middle mouse button to open a link in a new tab on one of the pages.

Does anyone know how to do this?

By: Aran Rhee

Aran Rhee — Fri, 18 Mar 2005 01:54:08 +0000

There is also a mouse gesture extension for firefox so you can get all the myIE (maxthon) type gestures happening too. Once you get used to it, you’ll never want to navigate another way.

I get really annoyed when I go to someone else’s computer with IE and can’t use the middle mouse button to open new windows…..

By: Charlie

Charlie — Thu, 17 Mar 2005 16:20:36 +0000

You should take a look at the Super Drag And Go extension. Opens links in a new tab with a click-drag-release.

Once you try it, you won’t believe you did it any other way.