Laura splits her time between being a movie and television reviewer as well as a tech writer. Along with writing and editing at MTE, she is the site admin of realityshack.com , and the chief editor of applemagazine.com.
Do you know that the middle mouse click is not as useless as it seems to be? There are several useful things that it can do in a browser.
1. Clicking the middle mouse button (by pressing down the scroll wheel) on a link in a browser will open the link in a new tab.
2. Clicking the middle mouse button on an open tab will close the tab.
3. Clicking the middle mouse button on a website will turn the cursor into a autoscroll button. You just have to move your mouse to scroll up/down/left/right the webpage. (Left) Click anywhere to deactivate the feature.