Tips to Supercharge Mozilla Firefox with Middle Mouse Button
Posted by DILLU... at Saturday, June 14, 2008
1- Click on a link with the middle mouse button to quickly open a link in a new tab. No more right click -> “Open Link in new tab”!
2- Press the Control (Ctrl) button and scroll the mouse wheel backward to increase Firefox’s font size. Scroll it forward to decrease the font size.
3- Press the Shift button and scroll the mouse wheel forward to move a page forward and scroll backwards to go the previous page.
4- Middle click on any tab closes it, instead of selecting the tab and clicking the X
Below are Mozilla Firefox’s about:config hack to modify hidden preferences.
Enter about:config in the Location Bar to display the list of user preferences.
1- Change the value of middlemouse.paste to true. This will let you paste a clipboard content to any text field with the middle mouse button.
2- Change the value of middlemouse.scrollbarPosition to true and restart your Firefox. The next time you click on a scrollbar location with the middle mouse button, Firefox will center the screen to that position.
3- Change the value of mousewheel.withaltkey.action to 1. This will enable you to scroll document by one page while pressing the Alt button.