One-Click Wonder

Sunday, May 7, 2006 12:52:00 PM

It turns out that you can easily close a tab with one click on the middle mouse button. On most modern mice, this would be the scroll wheel button. No fuss, no right-clicking, no selecting the tab and going to the other end of the screen for the X button. Just a single middle-click.

This works in Visual Studio 2005, in IE7, Firefox 1.5 and RSSBandit, to go by the applications I've tested it in. Seems to be a common UI convention that I have been entirely ignorant of. It's probably common knowledge for many people, but I only recently discovered it.
When I shared the discovery with my office-mates, it turned out that quite a few of them weren't aware of this trick either, so I figured I'd share it here for all the others who have missed it:

Enjoy.

3 Comments

Chris Hammond said Monday, May 8, 2006 12:42:00 AM

Interesting, I had no clue. I'll have to try it tomorrow at work!
John Walker said Monday, May 8, 2006 5:38:00 AM

Wow. Never knew this one. Thanks.
Darren Kopp said Monday, May 8, 2006 4:47:00 PM

holy crap batman, that just made my day! thanks avner

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