164068 - Ability to override system mouse setting [new way to detect middle-clicks]

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core :: DOM: UI Events & Focus Handling, enhancement)

Description

[tironsi]

I have a Microsoft Intellimouse and I have the middle-click button assigned as a
double-click in the Control Panel (Win98 SE). Therefore when I click a link with
the middle button, the link is followed on the current window. I would like it
to open in a new tab. If there some other way of detecting that it was indeed
the middle button that was pressed, and a new tab was opened, it would be great.

I have no idea if it is possible, or if it's even preferable, but I wanted to
file a bug just in case I am not the only one annoyed by this (looked for dupes,
didn't find any).

Comment 1

[Daniel Wang]

Rephrasal of what the reporter said:
Need the ability to treat middle mouse click as such even if the
system setting assigns middle mouse click as double click.

Comment 2

[Henrik Lynggaard Hansen]

I would vote for a WONTFIX. I do not believe it is our place/job to override
such os/driver features. 

If the user want the middle button to act as middleclick and not double click
this should be done in the driver setup, and if the user want different actions
depending for middle button depending on the application it should be a driver
issue too.

Otherwise we get into a real mess i think. e.g I have a 4 button mouse and I
normally have the thumbs button as double click, (middle= webwheel) and in
mozilla I would like double click replaced with a middle click. 

I think we will and up in to many Mouse type<->Driver version<-->user
setup<-->mozilla config kombinations.

 

Comment 3

[Josh Birnbaum]

I'm going to mark this as wontfix (in the "cantfix" sense).  The driver is
modifying how the system reacts to the middle click.

If it was possible, I agree it would be useful.  I just installed the latest
Intellipoint release and had to figure out how to get the middle-click to work
again (normal behavior == "AutoScroll"??).  anyways...