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Citizens of NS-General, help me!

I'm going off to college this year and have a laptop; I'm currently porting files and programs over. After installing Firefox and Opera though, I ran into quite a distressing predicament.

HOW DO YOU MIDDLE-CLICK?

There MUST be a way, there HAS TO, right?

I mean, how do you survive without middle-clicking?

Thanks in advance for taking the time to solve my minor, irrelevant problem-of-the-moment :D

buy a USB mouse. The touch pad will piss you off to no end very quickly.

beyond that, you don't really need to middle click...

I'm reasonably sure that "middle-clicking" refers to clicking the mouse wheel like a button, which would imply having a mouse with a wheel in the first place. I use it on Google Earth all the time to tilt the viewpoint.

My mouse has 5 buttons.:D great for SWBF2;)

I hate touchpads. I suggest buying a usb mouse and use that.

buy a USB mouse. The touch pad will piss you off to no end very quickly.

beyond that, you don't really need to middle click...
Seconded. Especially if you're trying to play games...

It's been beaten to death already, but here goes one more try: You do not really need to middle click that often, those touchpad things suck, get a USB mouse and you and your significant other will frolic in fields of posies.

My mouse has 5 buttons.:D great for SWBF2;)
Me too.

Left/right click are normal.
Middle click is set to 'double click'.
Left side button is cut and the right side button is paste :)

I've got one with about eight buttons and one of those big call things that can be pressed in, but, I don't like using any technology that appears that if I were to accidentally spill coffee on it, it could bring down the International Space Station.

Bahahaha!!!11!!1

Middle clicking :p

Get a wireless mouse, they're cool and easy to use.

Although I 1337 at laptop and don't need anything but my touch pad :cool:

My mouse has 5 buttons.:D great for SWBF2;)
Nope, you got 7 buttons. Scroll Wheel Up and Scroll Wheel Down count as buttons:p

HOW DO YOU MIDDLE-CLICK?

There MUST be a way, there HAS TO, right?

I mean, how do you survive without middle-clicking?
Yeah. Couldn't live without that. And on a Mac, you wouldn't even have right-click. Oh my.

Yeah. Couldn't live without that. And on a Mac, you wouldn't even have right-click. Oh my.
Get with the times. Macs new mouse has right click, left click, middle click, scroll up, scroll down, scroll left, scroll right. Just, no-one who has used a PC mouse will be able to successfully perform a click on the new Mac mouse.

Nope, you got 7 buttons. Scroll Wheel Up and Scroll Wheel Down count as buttons:p
Blah, 7 is just over the top.

Blah, 7 is just over the top.
That is how the computer sees it. It gets fun when you get into gaming mice. For example, the Logitech MX300 has 11 buttons.:eek:

That is how the computer sees it. It gets fun when you get into gaming mice. For example, the Logitech MX300 has 11 buttons.:eek:
I'm really quite happy with my 5.

I'm really quite happy with my 5.
I don't even have a mouse :eek:

I don't even have a mouse :eek:
Why not? Are you afraid of mice? :D

I should be a comedian, I know.

Why not? Are you afraid of mice? :D

I should be a comedian, I know.
I'm on a laptop.. :rolleyes:

You should do what I did, and get a laptop with a built in middle mouse button :P

But I now use a logitech mouse, cos it gives me enough buttons and enough response for gaming.

Now all I need is a cure for my lack of counter strike skillz.

buy a USB mouse. The touch pad will piss you off to no end very quickly.

beyond that, you don't really need to middle click...

How the hell can you open new tabs in Firefox then?:eek:

How the hell can you open new tabs in Firefox then?:eek:
file -> new -> navigator tab. That's in Netscape, obviously, but I shouldn't think it's all that different in firefox.

I don't even know why you'd need to be able to middle-click - and from what I've read here, I'm not the only one.

Also, unless you're into games, a touchpad is fine. I was without a mouse for so long, even now that I have one I'd rather use the touchpad.

Citizens of NS-General, help me!

I'm going off to college this year and have a laptop; I'm currently porting files and programs over. After installing Firefox and Opera though, I ran into quite a distressing predicament.

HOW DO YOU MIDDLE-CLICK?

There MUST be a way, there HAS TO, right?

I mean, how do you survive without middle-clicking?

Thanks in advance for taking the time to solve my minor, irrelevant problem-of-the-moment :D

I have a USB wireless mouse with mousewheel -- check out Kensington accessories.

How the hell can you open new tabs in Firefox then?:eek:
by using opera :)

Citizens of NS-General, help me!

I'm going off to college this year and have a laptop; I'm currently porting files and programs over. After installing Firefox and Opera though, I ran into quite a distressing predicament.

HOW DO YOU MIDDLE-CLICK?

There MUST be a way, there HAS TO, right?

I mean, how do you survive without middle-clicking?

Thanks in advance for taking the time to solve my minor, irrelevant problem-of-the-moment :D
We're not talking about those Sun/Sparc mouses with three buttons, are we?

HOW DO YOU MIDDLE-CLICK?


Assuming this laptop has two mouse buttons, try pressing both the left and right buttons at the same time (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_click#Buttons).


I mean, how do you survive without middle-clicking?


No middle button is survivable. No scroll-wheel (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_click#Wheels), on the other hand... :eek:

My mouse has 5 buttons.:D great for SWBF2;)
8 if you count the two normal buttons here (Mouse that comes with the mx3000 logitech cordless combo)

Edit forgot tilt ... and if we are counting scroll wheel as two (as the computer sees it 11 forgot the wheel tilt

Get with the times. Macs new mouse has right click, left click, middle click, scroll up, scroll down, scroll left, scroll right. Just, no-one who has used a PC mouse will be able to successfully perform a click on the new Mac mouse.
I do know Apple's so-called "Mighty Mouse". Gave it a try myself, last week at an Apple store. But MacBooks (the Pros as well) still don't have more than one mouse button. Probably you should rather tell Apple to get with the times...

Assuming this laptop has two mouse buttons, try pressing both the left and right buttons at the same time (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_click#Buttons).
Oh my god you rock!

How the hell can you open new tabs in Firefox then?:eek:
File->New Tab

OR

Right Click Link->Open in new tab

Get with the times. Macs new mouse has right click, left click, middle click, scroll up, scroll down, scroll left, scroll right. Just, no-one who has used a PC mouse will be able to successfully perform a click on the new Mac mouse.

Funny thing is that in other forums where I have spent many a happy hour annoying mac zealots - they ALL applauded the one button mouse and said how great it was before reciting the mantra: Think Different....Think Different...Think Different

I love it when Mac zealots make a u-turn. Especially when you've been talking to the same one. You can SHOW them what they have written before and they still deny their old opinions after the holy order of Apple have altered their stand point on any particular piece of technology.

Apple Fanatics: if they weren't so bloody annoying, you could laugh all the harder at them!


Kin Wicked

Funny thing is that in other forums where I have spent many a happy hour annoying mac zealots - they ALL applauded the one button mouse and said how great it was before reciting the mantra: Think Different....Think Different...Think Different

I love it when Mac zealots make a u-turn. Especially when you've been talking to the same one. You can SHOW them what they have written before and they still deny their old opinions after the holy order of Apple have altered their stand point on any particular piece of technology.

Apple Fanatics: if they weren't so bloody annoying, you could laugh all the harder at them!


Kin Wicked
Same goes for Windows zealots, and AMD Zealots, and the soon to re-rise Intel zealots, and maybe even UNIX zealots.

Same goes for Windows zealots, and AMD Zealots, and the soon to re-rise Intel zealots, and maybe even UNIX zealots.
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LOL, that is excellent!:)

LOL, that is excellent!:)
Lol sometimes I even feel that way lol watching an install from source lol

Sometimes thoes scripts have all kinds of hidden stuff in them
http://www.durak.org/sean/pubs/kfc/

Lol sometimes I even feel that way lol watching an install from source lol

Sometimes thoes scripts have all kinds of hidden stuff in them
http://www.durak.org/sean/pubs/kfc/
lol, i've heard of that before.

The last time I've installed from source was initng, and it didn't turn out. Other than that, just the newest fglrx driver before the deb was made.