I use the middle mouse button a lot. To open new links, and close tabs in Firefox. I also use Sketchup and Autocad frequently where I use the middle mouse button to rotate and pan the view, so it is ...

The middle mouse button helps you scroll through long web pages and screens with a lot of data. If that stops, well you will end up using the keyboard for scrolling which is painful. In this post, we ...

Take a close look at your mouse. Chances are good it has at least three buttons: left, right, and middle. (Note: Your middle button might be your scroll wheel, which on most mice is clickable.) I’ve ...

Pranay Parab is an independent tech journalist based in Mumbai, India. He covers tech for Lifehacker, and specializes in tutorials and in-depth features. There's a lot of helpful and time-saving ...

Are you loving your mouse’s middle button (a.k.a. “Middy”) more than you ever thought possible? Then you’ve obviously been reading my weeklong series on the subject. Good show! Until now, we’ve ...

You say "middle click" like it's a normal thing. I vastly prefer a dedicated middle click button to a clickable wheel - for everything from blender to Inkscape to just pasting, but there seem to be ...