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this post was submitted on 06 Jan 2026
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The middle mouse is important for browsing. I understand and see how that can cause issues. This is not about Windows, it is about the browser and this specific feature.
So just give apps an easy option to override the system default.
No need to change the established and pretty much standardized default behaviour of the whole OS.
Yes, that sounds reasonable.
Aren't those different elements?
(Text) Input element - pastes with middle click Hyperlinks - open in new tab "Empty space"/background/text - maybe use for the scroll thingy, I've never used
I don't really see the problem here, or do I miss something?
I think you can use it for side-scrolling or page-moving(???) or so.
Somewhat exotic, I don't think I know anyone who uses the middle button for anything other than the standard mouse-wheel vertical scrolling, which has nothing to do with pressing the middle button.
Due to the way my browser is laid out I do need the scroll right-left, I miss a chunk of info on the right of some pages making me use the ity bity scroll bar at the bottom of the page. I did stop trying after my 3rd time in a month clicking the wheel now I just don't do it. A toggle would be better than changing an action so many of you have ingrained, I can't see myself ever getting used to this action as I prefer to hot key my way through copy/paste/etc. Don't mess with the old guard to gain new users, you will only lose
I mean, middle click seems to open links in tabs fine here, even though I have paste on it as well.
So I don't see that there is a problem there? Except in the use case of side-scrolling by clicking the middle button - is that a thing?