Configurable Middle-click (e.g. open Tabs in Foreground)
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@morg42 said in Middle-click on Link to open in Foreground Tab:
Middle click is configured to open in new background tab (and has been forever in Opera before).
Shift-Click opens in new foreground tab
It's not logical that all the ways to open tab are totally made with mouse except this one, the foreground one, which needs the keyboard and two hands...
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@morg42 said in Middle-click on Link to open in Foreground Tab:
Middle click is configured to open in new background tab (and has been forever in Opera before).
funny, that i am using middle-click opening in foreground forever in opera
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@schreck I haven't used Opera for ... say, 4 or 5 years now, but then I always had the 7.5 mouse and keyboard setup. So maybe it's not there anymore...
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nobody here is using a mouse with middle click??
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@schreck I am sure there are more than a few of us, but probably there are a lot more users browsing on tablets or laptops without a mouse than in the old days when everyone used desktops.
Clearly, with only 1 upvote after 12 days, it is not a popular requirement to configure the middle-click. I have a middle-mouse button, which I use for:
- Opening links in a background tab (rarely) I might use it more if it was reliable — all too often it opens two or more copies of the clicked link.
- Closing a tab (almost never)
- Fast autoscroll of long pages or large images (sometime) = Click MMB and release, then drag.
- Scrolling the page, (very frequently)
- Zooming the page with Ctrl (very frequently)
The only other thing I want (would be nice but not essential) is middle-click on the tab bar to paste and go with clipboard contents, which would either go to the URL or search for the clipboard text if it's not a URL.
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@pesala said in Configurable Middle-click:
Opening links in a background tab (rarely) I might use it more if it was reliable — all too often it opens two or more copies of the clicked link.
I can't remember that ever happening to me.
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@pesala Might you possibly have a dirty contact for your MMB?
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@ayespy The MMB scroll-wheel button needs more pressure to work.
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@pesala And yet, I never get duplicates here.
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still want this.
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I'm requesting that an toggled option be created for middle-clicking a link to open a tab in the foreground as well as the current opening a tab in the background. This used to exist as an option in Opera, and Firefox has this as default, but Vivaldi hasn't included this since its inception.
Sure, you can shift-middle-click a link to open it in a tab in the foreground, but I'd like the option to swap this behaviour so that you can, if you wish, open a link in a new tab in the foreground by a single click of the mouse's middle button, while allowing you to open a tab in the background if you shift-middle-click on it. Default it to the current behaviour would be fine, but please add an option to change its behaviour.
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@Gort As you say, Opera 12.18 has these options:
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Opera 12 had a "Middle-click options" dialog where you could choose anything (well, all 5 "open link" options and "ignore links") as the default. No reason they couldn't do that here.
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@sgunhouse Yeah, that's what I remember and what @Pesala has shown. It was a neat feature, which I'm surprised hasn't yet been included in Vivaldi.
There are more important things, but it'd be nice to have this old Opera feature included in some future version of Vivaldi.
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@Gort While you're waiting try configuring some mouse gestures.
- GestureUp = Open Link in New Tab (Over a Link)
- GestureDown = Open Link in New Background Tab (Over a Link)
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@Pesala Yeah, I know I could do that and have in the past, but I really work best with middle-clicking a link.
I work a lot with Firefox, and I have my gestures set to be similar with the browsers I use. I got a bit annoyed after a while when my inaccuracy with such gestures caused tabs to be opened when I wanted the gesture to do something else. I ended up removing the gestures you suggested because of it. It's my fault and I should be more careful, but there you go. I now just open the tab with a middle-click and use a gesture to select the next tab, or I just resignedly use shift when clicking.
Still, thanks for the suggestion.
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please add this!! its just a number that you devs have to add to the code or why is this so hard?
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@schreck Agree with this. I've been asking for this for a while. It used to be an option in the original Opera and you can do this in Firefox.
In the meantime, you can install the extension Open Tabs In Foreground which seems to work and also allows you to open links in the background by shift-clicking the middle mouse button (ie, in reverse). OK, it doesn't allow you to fully configure the mouse middle click like in the old Opera days, but it's better than nothing. Still, yeah, I'd rather that this was built into Vivaldi.
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