New look at old, boring controversy

Posted by Stephen R. Diamond
Mar 23, 2008 at 08:28 PM

In IE, Firefox, and Opera for Windows, one would usually assign the middle click (third button), where Apple uses control-click. The right-click brings the context menu in Windows and Safari 3.1 for Windows. Using Safari, I am mostly using the context menu to open in a new tab. A solution would be to make the assignment to the third mouse button using third party software.

David Dunham wrote:
> >
>Stephen R. Diamond wrote:
>>where minimalist mouse-design
>>tradition now means
>that the user must hold down the control key to open in a new tab with
>>one click.
> >I
>can’t speak for the Windows version, but Mac OS X has always supported (though not
>required) two-button mice.
> >I can use the two-finger click on a MacBook to open a tab
>with one click (this is equivalent to right-clicking, which should work if you have a
>mouse rather than a trackpad).