Disable Middle-Click Close Tab?

[Phade]

Hey All,

I was recently given a Dell Precision M90. The touchpad has the mouse buttons below the pad with left, middle, and right buttons. I generally click these buttons with my thumb. My problem is that sometimes when I click the left button, my thumb will also click the middle button as well. This usually has no decremental effects unless I happen to be clicking on a browser tab, in which case the tab will close.

Is there a config setting that will disable "close tab on middle-click"?

I greatly enjoy the "open link in new tab on middle-click" feature, so I don't want to fully disable the middle click button. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks again and have a great day!! ^_^

Phade.

[the-edmeister]

Sorry, I don't see a preference for that in about:config, there is one for turning off the opening of a tab from a middle-click but not one for closing them.
Maybe one of the various Tab-browsing extensions has preference for that action, but I can't advise you as to which one might.


Ed

[Swami]

Tab Clicking Options extension. You can make middle-clicking a tab "do nothing".
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/260

[Phade]

Hey Swami,

Thanks for the link to the extension!

It's a bummer that it's not a built-in option to have browser.tabs.middleClickCloseTab = false setting. Should this go into the suggestion box?

Thanks again and have a great day!! ^_^

Phade.

[TOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOODy]

How do i make middle clicking on a link do nothing?

when i do this it open a new blank tab.

thx

[LoudNoise]

You are replying to an elderly thread (2007). Locking. Please start a new thread fully describing the problem.