neilinoz Posted December 31, 2004 Report Share Posted December 31, 2004 (edited) I recently (ie today) discovered that rather than right-clicking on a link and then telling it to open a new tab, that I can click my mouse scroll button on the link and it automatically opens a new tab. It's quite neat. The problem is that I accidentally "mouse scroll clicked" on an image file (jpg) which was not a link. However, the Browser then redirected itself to a particular corporate website. The problem seems similar to that described in a Fedora Forum Please try to reproduce this. Hover the arrow over an image in Firefox. Scroll-click on the image. Firefox should then redirect you to a particular corporate website. (note of explanation for those confused. I have a mouse that has a scrolling wheel in between the right and left click buttons. Mine can click down as well.) MORE ISSUES. I tried it again, but it the browser went to the Fedora forum above rather than the Corporate Website. I will restart my system and attempt to reproduce the problem again. ... And it didn't work this time. I feel a bit confused, but obviously there needs to be a number of pre-existing things to have occurred first before it works. If people can please mention below if it works. Try it just after you've started your PC, and then try it after you've been browsing for an hour or so. Edited December 31, 2004 by neilinoz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphitus Posted December 31, 2004 Report Share Posted December 31, 2004 LOL, no mate, this isnt covert advertising, its a (mis)feature. It used to happen to me to. It does a google 'im feeling lucky' on whatever is on your copy paste clipboard. Doesnt work for me any more, but i've modified my mouse configuration iphitus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamw Posted January 2, 2005 Report Share Posted January 2, 2005 yeah. If you middle click anything that's not a link it Googles whatever's in your copy buffer. Confused the hell out of me too, at first. I dunno who thought it'd be a smart idea, sigh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoulSe Posted January 3, 2005 Report Share Posted January 3, 2005 LOL - I scroll-clicked in white space on this thread and it took me to Slashdot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphitus Posted January 3, 2005 Report Share Posted January 3, 2005 LOL - I scroll-clicked in white space on this thread and it took me to Slashdot. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> http://mandrakeusers.org/index.php?showtop...ndpost&p=163682 you musta selected that at some stage............ :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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