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  Middle mouse button click in explorer Herbert Kleebauer <klee@unibwm.de> - 2025-04-01 11:14 +0200
    Re: Middle mouse button click in explorer Ed Cryer <ed@somewhere.in.the.uk> - 2025-04-01 15:58 +0100
      Re: Middle mouse button click in explorer Herbert Kleebauer <klee@unibwm.de> - 2025-04-01 18:35 +0200
        Re: Middle mouse button click in explorer Ed Cryer <ed@somewhere.in.the.uk> - 2025-04-01 19:02 +0100
          Re: Middle mouse button click in explorer Herbert Kleebauer <klee@unibwm.de> - 2025-04-05 18:08 +0200
      Re: Middle mouse button click in explorer micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2025-04-02 17:32 -0400
        Re: Middle mouse button click in explorer Herbert Kleebauer <klee@unibwm.de> - 2025-04-03 10:50 +0200
          Re: Middle mouse button click in explorer Daniel70 <daniel47@eternal-september.org> - 2025-04-03 20:20 +1100
            Re: Middle mouse button click in explorer micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2025-04-04 13:12 -0400
          Re: Middle mouse button click in explorer Char Jackson <none@none.invalid> - 2025-04-03 10:53 -0500
    Re: Middle mouse button click in explorer Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-04-01 12:16 -0400
      Re: Middle mouse button click in explorer Herbert Kleebauer <klee@unibwm.de> - 2025-04-01 18:42 +0200

#18148 — Middle mouse button click in explorer

If you click with the middle mouse button on a folder in
Windows explorer, the folder is opened in a new tab (like
a click on a link in a web browser), but the focus isn't
changed to the new tab. In Firefox I can change this
behavior in the settings. Is there a registry entry for
the Windows explorer to immediately change the focus to
the new tab?

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#18158

Herbert Kleebauer wrote:
> If you click with the middle mouse button on a folder in
> Windows explorer, the folder is opened in a new tab (like
> a click on a link in a web browser), but the focus isn't
> changed to the new tab. In Firefox I can change this
> behavior in the settings. Is there a registry entry for
> the Windows explorer to immediately change the focus to
> the new tab?

In previous versions of Win11 they did have focus. So MS must have 
changed it around, and I think I can see their reasoning. I suspect most 
people will prefer the current setting.

However, I searched around and found something you might try.
There's a script available in the lower replies of this thread;
https://www.elevenforum.com/t/opening-new-tabs-in-foreground-in-windows-11-24h2-with-middle-mouse-button.33469/

The OP seemed delighted with it. I hope you are.

Ed

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#18162

On 01.04.2025 16:58, Ed Cryer wrote:
>

> However, I searched around and found something you might try.
> There's a script available in the lower replies of this thread;
> https://www.elevenforum.com/t/opening-new-tabs-in-foreground-in-windows-11-24h2-with-middle-mouse-button.33469/

Thanks, but I will not use external software so I will take
it the way it is (had hopped it could be changed with a
registry entry).

But because I already use XMouseButton, I inserted a <CTRL><TAB>
after a middle mouse button click within explorer. In principle
this works, but the problem is, that the new TAB is not inserted
behind the active TAB (as in Firefox) but as the last TAB, so a
<CTRL><TAB> doesn't activate the new TAB.


  

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#18165

Herbert Kleebauer wrote:
> On 01.04.2025 16:58, Ed Cryer wrote:
>>
> 
>> However, I searched around and found something you might try.
>> There's a script available in the lower replies of this thread;
>> https://www.elevenforum.com/t/opening-new-tabs-in-foreground-in- 
>> windows-11-24h2-with-middle-mouse-button.33469/
> 
> Thanks, but I will not use external software so I will take
> it the way it is (had hopped it could be changed with a
> registry entry).
> 
> But because I already use XMouseButton, I inserted a <CTRL><TAB>
> after a middle mouse button click within explorer. In principle
> this works, but the problem is, that the new TAB is not inserted
> behind the active TAB (as in Firefox) but as the last TAB, so a
> <CTRL><TAB> doesn't activate the new TAB.
> 
> 
> 

Have you looked at the script I pointed you to? It might be something 
very simple; such as changing a setting in a registry entry.
If that's so, then you'll have your registry address, and you can do as 
you wish with it; no third party stuff, all your own work.

Ed

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#18302

On 01.04.2025 20:02, Ed Cryer wrote:

>> But because I already use XMouseButton, I inserted a <CTRL><TAB>
>> after a middle mouse button click within explorer. In principle
>> this works, but the problem is, that the new TAB is not inserted
>> behind the active TAB (as in Firefox) but as the last TAB, so a
>> <CTRL><TAB> doesn't activate the new TAB.


> Have you looked at the script I pointed you to? It might be something
> very simple; such as changing a setting in a registry entry.

I think it is an exe which has to run in the background and
I can't download it without creating an account.

But I have looked at the Firefox shortcuts: <CTRL>-9 activates
the last tab. This doesn't work in Explorer, but <CTRL>-n
activates tab n, if it exists.

So in XMouseButton I use for Explorer:

mouse button 5: {mmb}{WAITMS:500}{CTRL}2{CTRL}3{CTRL}4
mouse button 4: {CTRL}W

The behavior of the middle mouse button hasn't changed, so
it opens the folder in a new tab but doesn't make it the
active tab. Mouse button 5 also open a new tab but makes it
the active tab (if there are not more than 4 tabs) and
mouse button 4 closes the current tab. So the behavior of
button 4 and 5 is now the same as I have it in Firefox.

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#18209

In alt.comp.os.windows-11, on Tue, 1 Apr 2025 15:58:21 +0100, Ed Cryer
<ed@somewhere.in.the.uk> wrote:

>Herbert Kleebauer wrote:
>> If you click with the middle mouse button on a folder in
>> Windows explorer, the folder is opened in a new tab (like
>> a click on a link in a web browser), but the focus isn't
>> changed to the new tab. In Firefox I can change this
>> behavior in the settings. Is there a registry entry for
>> the Windows explorer to immediately change the focus to
>> the new tab?
>
>In previous versions of Win11 they did have focus. So MS must have 
>changed it around, and I think I can see their reasoning. I suspect most 
>people will prefer the current setting.

I haven't used this in Windows explorer (is that the same as File
Exploer) but in Firefox, I'll often open 2 or more new tabs from the one
I'm in, and I certainly prefer not to have focus switched to one of the
new ones until I'm done with the old one. 
>
>However, I searched around and found something you might try.
>There's a script available in the lower replies of this thread;
>https://www.elevenforum.com/t/opening-new-tabs-in-foreground-in-windows-11-24h2-with-middle-mouse-button.33469/
>
>The OP seemed delighted with it. I hope you are.
>
>Ed

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#18220

On 02.04.2025 23:32, micky wrote:

>>In previous versions of Win11 they did have focus. So MS must have 
>>changed it around, and I think I can see their reasoning. I suspect most 
>>people will prefer the current setting.
> 
> I haven't used this in Windows explorer (is that the same as File
> Exploer) but in Firefox, I'll often open 2 or more new tabs from the one
> I'm in, and I certainly prefer not to have focus switched to one of the
> new ones until I'm done with the old one.

What sense does it make to open a link in Firefox in a new tab if
you don't switch to it? Mostly a link is a additional explanation to
the current article. And I want to read this explanation before I go
on with the current article. In Firefox I therefore use mouse button 4
to open a link in a new tab (same as middle mouse button, but easier
to click) and button 5 to close the current tab. This way it is very
easy to go down a tree of links and the back up with only two mouse
buttons.

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#18222

On 3/04/2025 7:50 pm, Herbert Kleebauer wrote:
> On 02.04.2025 23:32, micky wrote:
> 
>>> In previous versions of Win11 they did have focus. So MS must 
>>> have changed it around, and I think I can see their reasoning. I 
>>> suspect most people will prefer the current setting.
>> 
>> I haven't used this in Windows explorer (is that the same as File 
>> Exploer) but in Firefox, I'll often open 2 or more new tabs from 
>> the one I'm in, and I certainly prefer not to have focus switched 
>> to one of the new ones until I'm done with the old one.
> 
> What sense does it make to open a link in Firefox in a new tab if
> you don't switch to it?

Maybe the webpage contains three gazillion Bytes of Data so will take
some time (minutes, maybe) to download .... so you continue reading the
original Webpage.

> Mostly a link is a additional explanation to the current article. And
> I want to read this explanation before I go on with the current
> article. In Firefox I therefore use mouse button 4 to open a link in
> a new tab (same as middle mouse button, but easier to click) and
> button 5 to close the current tab. This way it is very easy to go
> down a tree of links and the back up with only two mouse buttons.
-- 
Daniel70

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#18274

In alt.comp.os.windows-11, on Thu, 3 Apr 2025 20:20:10 +1100, Daniel70
<daniel47@eternal-september.org> wrote:

>On 3/04/2025 7:50 pm, Herbert Kleebauer wrote:
>> On 02.04.2025 23:32, micky wrote:
>> 
>>>> In previous versions of Win11 they did have focus. So MS must 
>>>> have changed it around, and I think I can see their reasoning. I 
>>>> suspect most people will prefer the current setting.
>>> 
>>> I haven't used this in Windows explorer (is that the same as File 
>>> Exploer) but in Firefox, I'll often open 2 or more new tabs from 

Often I open 3, 4, 5 new tabs from one page, for examplle google search
pages. 

>>> the one I'm in, and I certainly prefer not to have focus switched 
>>> to one of the new ones until I'm done with the old one.
>> 
>> What sense does it make to open a link in Firefox in a new tab if
>> you don't switch to it?

I didn't say I'd never switch to it. just not "until I'm done with the
old one."  And if there are more than one new ones, you can't switch to
all at the same time anyhow. 

>Maybe the webpage contains three gazillion Bytes of Data so will take
>some time (minutes, maybe) to download .... so you continue reading the
>original Webpage.

That too. 

>> Mostly a link is a additional explanation to the current article. And
>> I want to read this explanation before I go on with the current
>> article. In Firefox I therefore use mouse button 4 to open a link in
>> a new tab (same as middle mouse button, but easier to click) and
>> button 5 to close the current tab. This way it is very easy to go
>> down a tree of links and the back up with only two mouse buttons.

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#18237

On Thu, 3 Apr 2025 10:50:56 +0200, Herbert Kleebauer <klee@unibwm.de>
wrote:

>On 02.04.2025 23:32, micky wrote:
>
>>>In previous versions of Win11 they did have focus. So MS must have 
>>>changed it around, and I think I can see their reasoning. I suspect most 
>>>people will prefer the current setting.
>> 
>> I haven't used this in Windows explorer (is that the same as File
>> Exploer) but in Firefox, I'll often open 2 or more new tabs from the one
>> I'm in, and I certainly prefer not to have focus switched to one of the
>> new ones until I'm done with the old one.
>
>What sense does it make to open a link in Firefox in a new tab if
>you don't switch to it?

Every year or two, I want to switch to a new tab as soon as I open it.
The rest of the thousands and thousands of times that I open a new tab,
I want to get to it when I've finished doing whatever I'm doing in the
current tab.

>Mostly a link is a additional explanation to
>the current article. And I want to read this explanation before I go
>on with the current article. In Firefox I therefore use mouse button 4
>to open a link in a new tab (same as middle mouse button, but easier
>to click) and button 5 to close the current tab. This way it is very
>easy to go down a tree of links and the back up with only two mouse
>buttons.

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#18161

On Tue, 4/1/2025 5:14 AM, Herbert Kleebauer wrote:
> If you click with the middle mouse button on a folder in
> Windows explorer, the folder is opened in a new tab (like
> a click on a link in a web browser), but the focus isn't
> changed to the new tab. In Firefox I can change this
> behavior in the settings. Is there a registry entry for
> the Windows explorer to immediately change the focus to
> the new tab?

https://zapier.com/blog/windows-middle-click/

   "To open a link in a new browser tab and immediately switch to it,
    meanwhile, hold the Shift key while you middle-click the link.

    (If you're more of a one-hand-on-the-keyboard kind of person, you
     can also do this with the good ol' left mouse button. Just hold down
     the Ctrl key while you left-click a link to open it in a new tab.)"

In Win11, mine has the focus on the new tab, after clicking via middle-mouse.
w11Home 23H2 22631.5039 .

If I do ctrl-middle-mouse, a new File Explorer opens and it has focus.

   Paul

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#18163

On 01.04.2025 18:16, Paul wrote:

> 
> https://zapier.com/blog/windows-middle-click/
> 
>     "To open a link in a new browser tab and immediately switch to it,
>      meanwhile, hold the Shift key while you middle-click the link.

That's for the web browser.

> In Win11, mine has the focus on the new tab, after clicking via middle-mouse.
> w11Home 23H2 22631.5039 .

Sadly that isn't true for Version 24H2 (Build 26100.3476)

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