[Leaplist] Re: Rotating Wheel Mouse

Fred Moore fmoor at fmeco.com
Wed Sep 17 19:41:55 EDT 2008


Bill Smith wrote:
> Thank you, Hale.  Didn't know that the wheel could also act as a paste
> button.
>
> Bill
>
>
> On Wed, 2008-09-17 at 11:34 -0400, Hale Pringle wrote:
>   
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I recently had the same problem with a wheel mouse.  It turned out
>> that the wheel was very sensitive to being pressed and that resulted
>> in a Paste Click.  In FireFox this would give me the unexpected jump
>> to an odd URL (eg. www.p.com).  I changed to a different mouse and the
>> problem when away.
>>
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in Firefox a center mouse button (ie wheel down) is a backward link, so
it goes back one from where you were.  I have also replaced several
mouses for this problem.  you move the mouse wheel quickly and it
generates one or multiple backs.. Fred

-- 
Lots of soaring generalities, without a single hard fact in sight. Saves 
the trouble of having to do research.
Fred/WD8KNI



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