SetPoint Middle-Click to Open Link in New Tab

1/5/2006 by Elliot Lee | Filed in Life, Technical | 49 comments

This function is the default for a middle click in Mozilla Firefox, but with the software included with the Logitech MX1000 rechargeable wireless laser mouse, Logitech’s SetPoint Settings, the middle click is reassigned to do zoom. This is not effective for the kind of work I do. So I set about finding a way to change it. Turns out that you need to choose “Other” as the function, click the “Set Function” button, and then choose “Generic Button”. That did the trick. Awesome — thanks, Logitech! Good software.

49 Responses to “SetPoint Middle-Click to Open Link in New Tab”

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  1. guido says:
    2/1/2009 at 4:33 pm

    OMG …said the full grown man, because he was so happy to have read this.

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  2. eastbruce says:
    3/27/2009 at 9:44 am

    I had spent hours in the Mozilla forums searching for a fix. Your solution makes my surfing pleasant again!

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  3. Dean Kennedy says:
    4/13/2009 at 4:20 pm

    Thanks — this helped. I have a Logitech G5 Gaming Mouse — my middle click stopped opening links in a new tab and was working as a Back button (quite an annoying difference!).

    Reading your post, I assigned “Generic Button” and clicked Apply — didn’t help, but then I assigned “Other” Middle Click again (as it was) — and hit Apply — and it returned to functioning normally!

    Thanks — I was thinking it was caused by a Firefox Add On or a setting in Firefox about:config — but it was the Logitech setting that I freshly re-applied that got it working again … without your post, I wouldn’t have thought to do that!

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  4. Helmet says:
    8/1/2009 at 6:54 am

    thanks! good job

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  5. tori says:
    8/20/2009 at 9:58 pm

    Thank You, it did the trick!

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  6. Juan says:
    10/25/2009 at 1:52 pm

    I like it!!!

    Thanks!

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  7. Paige says:
    4/16/2010 at 7:03 am

    OMFG……said the full grown WOman, because she was soooooo happy to have read this. Thank you for your post Elliot.

    ps. “intelliot” is brilliant

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  8. Varun says:
    7/30/2010 at 9:32 pm

    Thank you :)

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  9. Pavan says:
    10/5/2010 at 12:39 am

    This worked for me…. thanks :)

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  10. slay says:
    10/24/2010 at 2:49 am

    damn, Logitech just gets worse every day because of these simple stupid things. thanx men, helped a lot in searching

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  11. LogitechSucks says:
    10/29/2010 at 4:27 pm

    Wow…I almost took the mouse back…..thanks dude!

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  12. Abcdqfr says:
    2/2/2011 at 7:04 pm

    Wow! Thank you!!!
    Lol, that has to be a new record for me for fastest (yet stupidest) fix!

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  13. Wagner Danda says:
    6/14/2011 at 12:21 am

    Thanks! It worked perfectly! :)

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  14. vercatosso says:
    8/12/2011 at 6:39 am

    THANK YOU SO MUCH. *sends undying love*

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  15. Dratel says:
    12/15/2011 at 9:28 pm

    I LOVE YOU!

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  16. garry says:
    4/8/2012 at 4:31 pm

    Came here to say this: Thank you so much. Stopped randomly working and you fixed it for me. Thank you!

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  17. Gerald says:
    5/16/2012 at 5:48 pm

    NICE!!!! You can’t imagine how glad I am to have read this!

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  18. hacksacken says:
    8/24/2012 at 12:15 pm

    THANK YOU!!!!

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  19. Huzaifa Singaporewala says:
    1/9/2013 at 9:34 am

    perfect

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  20. Jon says:
    9/19/2014 at 4:48 am

    I can’t resolve it because in my setpoint there isn’t “Generic Button” as option. Do you have any idea?

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  21. Szil says:
    12/6/2016 at 11:15 am

    Thank you very much, solved the same issue in Chrome.

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