Just came across this computer mouse tip today at dotTech.org called: Easily open links in new tabs by pressing the scroll wheel on your mouse.
The article title says it all! So, when you come to any link at the MR Forum (or any website) – Simply press your mouse’s scroll wheel once to open that link in a new tab – And save yourself a couple right-mouse clicks to do the same thing.
How long have you had a computer with this tip waiting for discovery?
"Who would have thought It was this simple?"
You didn’t know that? Just click the scroll wheel and a new tab for that article opens. I discovered it accidentally some time back.
Using the scroll wheel is the only way I open links on the internet. Been doing it that way for years.
No, some of us didn’t know that. Course, Firefox seems to do that automatically - even if you left-click the link with your mouse. So, it’s really 6 of one thing and a 1/2 dozen of another. However, I’ll store that tidbit away for the times that my browser doesn’t do it automatically.
[Edit: Well, after some experimenting, left-clicking with the mouse does NOT automatically open all links to a separate tab.]
Thanks for the tip, tgindy. [:D]
Tom
If you don’t have a scroll-wheel (I’m not sure who doesn’t these days), ctrl-leftclick will do the same thing. ⌘-leftclick on a mac.
When LION presses scroll button on his mouse it opens a MAGNIFIER.
Buttons are fungible, the mouse will do how you set it up to do.
ROAR
I can’t remember any link that would not open in a new window with a left click of the mouse. At least none since I upgraded to the latest version of IE I have on my computer (IE8 I believe).
One more advantage of the “press scroll wheel once” feature is regardless of how an MR Forum poster URL-links, either open in same window, or open in new window, you shall always get a new tab without losing your place in the current MR forum post/thread.