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| From | Daniel70 <daniel47@eternal-september.org> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | alt.comp.os.windows-11 |
| Subject | Re: Middle mouse button click in explorer |
| Date | 2025-04-03 20:20 +1100 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <vsljsc$a1cu$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
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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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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
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