Middle mouse button doesn't open or close tabs in browser

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I was using Logitech M-100 mouse and everything worked well. Then I've plugged in X7 XL-755BK mouse which worked perfect on my previous laptop. But this time middle button doesn't open links in new tabs and doesn't close tabs when I click them. Moreover, if I click middle button, it scrolls the current page (not only in browser) to the very bottom.

The browser I use is Firefox 68.9.0esr with some extensions. However everything worked with the same extensions with that other mouses The system is Windows 10

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5 Answers

I recently bought a Logitech M510 and ran into the same problem. I did the following to assign middle mouse click to open link in a new tab (Windows 10):

  1. Download Logitech Options - https://www.logitech.com/en-roeu/product/options

  2. Select 'Mouse' and 'middle mouse button' in the tool

  3. Select 'Advanced Click' -> Click + Ctrl + Shift (Ctrl + Shift + Left Click is the keyboard shortcut to open link in a new tab which we assign to the middle mouse button) enter image description here

  4. You can also do this assignment just for a specific application e.g. Chrome enter image description here

user_93852030

Funnily enough the taskbar locker or unlocked question solved it for me, apparently it's a bug with windows, just toggle the option on/off and then back, and it fixed the issue for me. Unclear but saved me trouble, thanks. Disclaimer, I don't understand why it stopped working for me in the first place, so it could have been an unrelated bug and just a coincidence, but doesn't take much to try it.

user_175901880

Hello can you check the taskbar in taskbar settings is locked or not?

user_148618190

In my case, with a Logitech MX Anywhere 3, using the same Logitech Options software, the middle button didn't close the browser tabs. Instead, used inside Notepad++ (just an example) it worked as usual, so it closed the tabs.

The issue was due to the activation of application presets in Logitech Options, where for Google and Edge application presets, the middle button wasn't set as default "Middle button" but was set as "Open link in new tab".

user_16772640

Old thread, but.... I had this problem - turned the mouse off and back on. Fixed. It may not fix everyone, but give it a go

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