Laptops rarely, if ever, provide the trackpad equivalent of a middle mouse button, most models offer only two buttons, though some provide a way to simulate the middle button with software. For most ...

Windows Vista (with Taskbar Shuffle) makes it easy to close programs by middle-clicking their taskbar button. In Windows 7, middle-clicking a taskbar button opens a new program instance. The ...

If you use your mouse's middle button only to scroll up and down, you're missing convenient functions that can speed up browsing and navigation.

Take a close look at your mouse. Chances are good it has at least three buttons: left, right, and middle. (Note: Your middle button might be your scroll wheel, which on most mice is clickable.) I’ve ...

The middle mouse button helps you scroll through long web pages and screens with a lot of data. If that stops, well you will end up using the keyboard for scrolling which is painful. In this post, we ...

The Chrome Reddit thread has filled up today with complaints from Google Chrome users who say they can't use the mouse middle button to open links in new tabs. Using the CTRL key and a click on links ...

Quick browser tip: Everybody knows middle-clicking links in modern browsers will open the link in a new tab. Reader Landon Roberts points out that the same middle-click works on your forward and back ...

I use the middle mouse button a lot. To open new links, and close tabs in Firefox. I also use Sketchup and Autocad frequently where I use the middle mouse button to rotate and pan the view, so it is ...

I'm using Windows Remote Desktop to connect to a Windows XP Pro box. Almost everything works well. The one problem is that there doesn't seem to be a way to get the middle (scrollwheel) button on my ...