Configurable Middle-click (e.g. open Tabs in Foreground)

[HanlonsRazor]

Hah, I keep forgetting I already voted for this and open yet another thread.

[HanlonsRazor]

Okay, I made my own workaround by using Input Remapper on Linux (Manjaro). I simply remapped the mouse middle button (“Button MIDDLE”) to left shift + mouse middle button (“Shift_L + BTN_MIDDLE”).

[Barruel]

I upvoted this.

As a former Opera user, I am used to middle-click over a link to open it in a background tab. I don't know where I got the habit, but I am also used to middle-click in the tab itself to duplicate it in a background tab, and I keep closing them every time I do it, which is quite often. Mildly infuriating.

[janiporo]

I have been wanting this option since Opera-days. How do I vote on this?

[mib2berlin]

@janiporo
Hi, vote in the first post:

Cheers, mib

[janiporo]

Thanks ^~^

[belenus]

Hello,

is it possible to configure Vivaldi in order to middle click the new tab button (+) to have private window opened? I see that the shortcut to open private window is configurable, but it doesn't accept mouse inputs.

[Pesala]

@belenus Much better is to assign a mouse gesture to open a new private window, then you can open it wherever the mouse cursor is on the page, there is no need to hit the new tab button, which may be far away, and is not always in the same position.

[Mrwhite987]

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[Mrwhite987]

@schreck Same problem here when transform from chrome to vivaldi.
I try to use chatgpt to create a extension to solve this issue and it worked.
You can get access to the extension at following url and load it into vivaldi if you want.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MK0m3CCsoiRH-4PLY6uLArgghgM_pTuO/view?usp=drive_link

[stachenov]

I wonder why it hasn't been implemented yet. Vivaldi poses itself as highly customizable, but this one thing is one of the first that come to mind when speaking about customization. Even Firefox has it. Is it somehow made hard to implement by the Chromium part? Because otherwise it sounds like something ridiculously easy and yet extremely useful. I can do without it, of course, I got used to this stupid way of opening tabs in Chrome, but at the same time it feels like using Chrome, that is, something uncomfortable and not customizable at all.

[CasketPizza]

@Mrwhite987 this works great, but the new tab doesn't open in the current tab group now , still, thanks for trying.

edit: i ran your extension through chatgpt and it fixed it . It changed background.js to this:

chrome.runtime.onInstalled.addListener(() => {
    chrome.contextMenus.create({
        id: "openInForegroundTab",
        title: "Open in Foreground Tab",
        contexts: ["link"]
    });
});

chrome.contextMenus.onClicked.addListener((info, tab) => {
    if (info.menuItemId === "openInForegroundTab") {
        chrome.tabs.create({
            url: info.linkUrl,
            active: true,
            index: tab.index + 1,
            openerTabId: tab.id
        }, (newTab) => {
            if (tab.groupId !== chrome.tabGroups.TAB_GROUP_ID_NONE) {
                chrome.tabs.group({ groupId: tab.groupId, tabIds: newTab.id });
            }
        });
    }
});

chrome.runtime.onMessage.addListener((message, sender, sendResponse) => {
    if (message.action === 'openInForeground') {
        chrome.tabs.create({
            url: message.url,
            active: true,
            index: sender.tab.index + 1,
            openerTabId: sender.tab.id
        }, (newTab) => {
            if (sender.tab.groupId !== chrome.tabGroups.TAB_GROUP_ID_NONE) {
                chrome.tabs.group({ groupId: sender.tab.groupId, tabIds: newTab.id });
            }
        });
    }
});

chrome.tabs.onCreated.addListener((tab) => {
    if (!tab.active) {
        chrome.tabs.update(tab.id, { active: true });
    }
});

[astero]

@stachenov said in Configurable Middle-click (e.g. open Tabs in Foreground):

I wonder why it hasn't been implemented yet. Vivaldi poses itself as highly customizable, but this one thing is one of the first that come to mind when speaking about customization. Even Firefox has it. Is it somehow made hard to implement by the Chromium part? Because otherwise it sounds like something ridiculously easy and yet extremely useful. I can do without it, of course, I got used to this stupid way of opening tabs in Chrome, but at the same time it feels like using Chrome, that is, something uncomfortable and not customizable at all.

agree. It is weird that middle-click is not customizable in Vivaldi, yet very simple to implement.

[stachenov]

@astero To be honest, I barely need this anymore since I revived my old Opera instincts and started using mouse gestures. I open links in the foreground by dragging down now and open in the background by middle-clicking.

Still, more freedom to customize mouse buttons would be nice.

[michalholas]

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[VoodooPriest]

With the proliferation of the number of "partners" in cookie notice windows and the ludicrous difficulty that it sometimes is to deny all cookies, I now open links in a private window more often than not.

I would welcome the possibility to configure either the middle mouse button or a gesture to open links in private window.

[ra-mon]

There is already an option called "new tab from link opens in background" in Setting > Tabs > Tabs. It's designed for link contextual menu behavior.

Perhaps it's possible to mutualize this existing option with the middle-click behavior ?