IE 6 Making Me Crazy

mdshunk

Aparently, IE 6 has a feature that if you press down on the mouse wheel over top of something clickable, it will open that item in a new window.

I do all my scrolling with the mouse wheel, and often (about every 2 minutes) press the wheel hard enough to scroll down that it often also "clicks" the wheel, opening a new window. This is nuts. My wheel is slick enough, that I often have to press hard enough to click it just to get "traction" on the wheel.

Is there a way to disable this feature?

Teetorbilt

Is it a programmable mouse? Maybe there is a fix in the program.

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mdshunk

I did go into my setting, as your suggestion Steve. The only thing to change with respect to the wheel is the number of lines it will scrolll per click of the wheel.

This is frustrating me enough that I might just take my mouse apart and either try to add tension to the spring that holds the wheel up off the button that it hits inside, or break it so that it can't hit that button.

mdshunk

Problem solved. I took the mouse apart and put a drop of super glue on the little switch under the mouse wheel. I don't need that feature, and it was making me crazy (crazier?).

ron schenker

This was a great fix! Do you mind if I take this and market it to other frustrated IE6 users that don't need this feature? BTW, can I use Crazy glue instead of Super glue?

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RowdyRed94

Firefox 2? IE 7?

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b34nz

Switch to IE7 or FF
Personally I love IE7, most people like FF though.

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