Configurable Middle-click (e.g. open Tabs in Foreground)
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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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Related to this thread : Double-click a Link to Open a Tab in the Foreground
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+1, as this mouse gesture dus not work well for me.
In research, it is handy to quickly open a new tab, scan if the content is useful, and if so, only then keep the tab open for later reading. So making the new tab active with a middle click would be welcome (even as an option).
Several topics request this feature:
https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/6389/middle-click-options
https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/5011/middle-click-option/3 -
@Gort said in Configurable Middle-click:
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).
is this working for you? still not opening in the foreground..
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@Pesala Gestures are a PITA as soon as you don't use a mouse or can't use a mouse.
- If you want to be fast with a trackball, you move the pointer first and then click. You try to avoid the right-click because it is usually executed with the right pinkie or the annular finger and gesturing at the same time with one of the other fingers needs more dexterity than some people have.
- On a trackpad they afford the use of two hands with some trackpad implementations, because they can only be done wile pressing the Alt key simultaneously. This can be awkward too, depending of the position of the trackpad. A middle-click is usually a simple 3 finger tap.
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@QuHno Mouse Gestures are a huge productivity plus. They deserve some coding effort to make them work better with other input devices. The sensitivity slider may help some users. Rocker gestures should also be customisable.
My most common problem with the gestures that I suggested is that I open a link instead of scrolling to top/bottom because I don't realise that the cursor is over a link.
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@Pesala Yes, for mouse users, but as you can see in this "feature request" (it is only a real feature request if it is logged in the Bug Tracker), they are not for everyone.
Additionally the last part of my first sentence was important too:
"(...) as soon as you don't use a mouse or can't use a mouse." -
Any news about this feature? I don't wana use MMB as Foreground, but now vivaldi change this(