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Center clicking on laptop is not opening links in new tabs...?

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I have a Dell laptop that's approximately 4 years old. About 2-3 months ago I noticed that when I click in the center of my buttons Firefox will no longer open links in new tabs. I already tried installing GreaseMonkey and it did absolutely squat to resolve the issue. I have no setting for center click on my touchpad/button settings in my Control Panel.

Please help, I just want to be able to open new tabs with a center click again.

I have a Dell laptop that's approximately 4 years old. About 2-3 months ago I noticed that when I click in the center of my buttons Firefox will no longer open links in new tabs. I already tried installing GreaseMonkey and it did absolutely squat to resolve the issue. I have no setting for center click on my touchpad/button settings in my Control Panel. Please help, I just want to be able to open new tabs with a center click again.

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I have this setting in the about:config window:

middlemouse.openNewWindow = true

Middle-clicking works to make links open in a new tab for me. Maybe check that setting.

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I just checked- it's already set to that and still not working :(

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Note that the middlemouse.openNewWindow pref doesn't have any effect in Firefox, it is a SeaMonkey only pref.

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How about this setting?

browser.tabs.opentabfor.middleclick = true

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Also already set to true. I attempted to toggle both settings to false and then true again and it still has no effect.

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Does it still work with a Ctrl and left click?

Try to create a new profile as a test to check if your current profile is causing the problems.

See "Creating a profile":

If the new profile works then you can transfer some files from an existing profile to the new profile, but be careful not to copy corrupted files.

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I created a new profile and was still unable to center-click to open new tabs :(

One thing to add- Immediately prior to noticing this issue, I'd had the hard drive in my computer replaced. Since none of the solutions offered here are working, could it be a driver issue?

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Maybe update the mouse drivers?