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LTEAK
Making moves
Status: New idea

I'm really frustrated when using my mouse scroll wheel button for doing locked auto-scrolling (clicking the wheel toggles the scrolling on & off). The feature works great -- with one major exception.  If I happen to click the wheel while the cursor is over a hyperlinked image or hyperlinked text, the link opens in a new tab. But, that wastes time and interrupts my work flow. It's a frequent frustration. I just want the scrolling to stop, and no link to open.

Now, I realize that some people do use the wheel button to open a link in a new tab (which I do from the right-click menu instead).

So, I ask that an new booleen  item be added to About:Config.  It could be called MiddleButtonControlsScroll.  When set to True, the middle button (scroll wheel click) would toggle locked auto-scrolling on/off, and NEVER open link.

Seems like an easy fix. Can you do it? Soon, please?

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Status changed to: New idea
Jon
Community Manager
Community Manager

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Agentvirtuel
Collaborator

Hello

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1514119

To complement, this discussion.

As far as i'm concerned, feedback

Use the middle button to activate or deactivate autoscrolling a page https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/mouse-shortcuts-perform-common-tasks#w_autoscrolling-a-page, it works.

If, browser.tabs.opentabfor.middleclick, false, then, use the middle button, doesn't work, the link not opens in a new tab.
Use the middle button to activate or deactivate, autoscrolling a page, it works.

Agentvirtuel
Collaborator

This additional information.

browser.tabs.opentabfor.middleclick true1.png

browser.tabs.opentabfor.middleclick false2.png

Take a look at https://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?p=14960439#p14960439

https://searchfox.org/mozilla-release/source/modules/libpref/init/StaticPrefList.yaml


# Whether to ignore middle click events on widget level.
- name: widget.gtk.middle-click-enabled
type: bool
value: true
mirror: always

# If set, middle clicking on a link opens the link in a new tab.
- name: browser.tabs.opentabfor.middleclick
type: bool
value: true
mirror: always

I also, tested, widget.gtk.middle-click-enabled, i haven't noticed any side effects.