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Strange Middle Mouse Click Behaviour

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bfalcon
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Ditched Chrome for Quantam but find myself relearning middle mouse interatction. Its strange because I have the same browser and OS on another computer and it doesn't happen as much / if at all.

Here's are the problems: 1) Middle mouse click on link to open in a new tab always opens 2 of the link in new tabs as opposed to the 1. 2) Middle mouse click to close tab closes the tab and then opens a new one

What could be going wrong? Its almost as if its clicking twice?

Firefox: 57.0 OS: Linux Deepin 15.5 (based on Debian 8)

Ditched Chrome for Quantam but find myself relearning middle mouse interatction. Its strange because I have the same browser and OS on another computer and it doesn't happen as much / if at all. Here's are the problems: 1) Middle mouse click on link to open in a new tab always opens 2 of the link in new tabs as opposed to the 1. 2) Middle mouse click to close tab closes the tab and then opens a new one What could be going wrong? Its almost as if its clicking twice? Firefox: 57.0 OS: Linux Deepin 15.5 (based on Debian 8)

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Shadow110
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Please : https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/export-firefox-bookmarks-to-backup-or-transfer and https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/back-and-restore-information-firefox-profiles then https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/refresh-firefox-reset-add-ons-and-settings TEST....... If no issues then Extensions which need to be added back in 1 at a time and tested ..... Or it is your Profile : Make a new one and test ...: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-and-remove-firefox-profiles

Please let us know if this solved your issue or if need further assistance.

James
James
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Use the Profilemanager to create a new Profile as the so called Refresh method is a awkward way to go about creating a new Profile while only keeping some of your settings.

bfalcon, try another mouse to rule it out?

Maybe check your mouse settings.

Modified by James