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smith84594
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 Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2004 5:35 pm Post subject: Middle Mouse Button Maddness!!! |
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In firebird, is there any way that I can make it so that when I click on the middle mouse button, I get a scroll box, then when I click the middle mouse button again, the scrollbox disappears?
Currently, when I click it the second time, it returns me to my homepage, and I find it incredibly irritating. |
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flybynite
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| Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2004 2:37 am Post subject: Its there |
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tools->options->advanced->browsing-> use autoscroll
This is the option you need... |
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eug2k
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| Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2004 2:38 am Post subject: |
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No that turns on the scroll but it still makes the second click take me to random websites. For some reason this only happens for me in gnome. I have since switched to xfce4.
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Klin'Targ
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| Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2004 8:42 am Post subject: |
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I was wondering about the whole "goes to random websites" thing myself... It turns out to be a feature, not a bug 
Middle clicking will go to the "I'm feeling lucky" website of the text you have selected, or if nothing is selected, to what is in the clipboard.
ex: select this and middle click:
google.com |
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mr_echo
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| Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2004 9:24 am Post subject: |
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Very annoying "feature" I must say  |
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meowsqueak
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| Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2004 9:59 am Post subject: |
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Actually, it's a very useful feature. Consider someone pastes an URL in IRC, or in an email, or an unHTMLised URL in a webpage - just select it and then middle click - mozilla/firefox will load the URL stored in the clipboard.
If you don't know how the X clipboard works - basically, whenever you select something, it's immediately stored in the clipboard. You can usually double click to select a word, and triple click to select an entire line. Also, left click then right click can be used to mark beginning and end of selections in most xtermish applications. You can also click and drag.
Or you can also use a script like this one below and bind it to a keyboard shortcut or extra mouse button. This will load the currently selected URL in an existing instance of mozilla somewhere (can change for firefox easily enough), or open a new one if none exist:
| Code: | #!/bin/bash
if mozilla -remote 'ping()'
then
mozilla -remote "openURL(`xclip -o`, new-tab)"
else
mozilla `xclip -o`
fi |
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allucid
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| Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2004 7:41 pm Post subject: |
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| mr_echo wrote: | | Very annoying "feature" I must say |
look at this |
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eug2k
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| Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2004 10:06 pm Post subject: |
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| allucid wrote: | | mr_echo wrote: | | Very annoying "feature" I must say |
look at this |
Thank You! I thought the problem was only in gnome but then I realized I hadn't ever tried it in xfce4 after selecting something. But the fix on that website works great, thanks.
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mr_echo
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| Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2004 8:44 am Post subject: |
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Yeah, thanks a lot!
Guess Mozilla/Firefox will never stop surprising me with it's ability to customize itself.  |
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sapphirecat
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| Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2004 3:27 pm Post subject: |
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FYI, Moz bug 216899 (reported by yours truly) is dedicated to this misfeature.
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Malakai
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| Posted: Sat Mar 13, 2004 11:47 pm Post subject: |
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| allucid wrote: | | mr_echo wrote: | | Very annoying "feature" I must say |
look at this |
arigato!
(thanks) |
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