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For convenience I scroll by holding down the wheel of my Logitech mouse at the same time as I move the mouse itself up and down (but not moving or rotating the mouse wheel forward or backward).

Unfortunately, when I scroll this way and take my finger off the mouse wheel, it performs a click action. If the arrow happens to land on a link when I let up off the mouse wheel, I end up inadvertently clicking that link.

How can I prevent the mouse from performing a click action when using the mouse in this way?

It seems like this is only happening in the Google Chrome browser.

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The scroll circle never shows when clicking on a link. Are you sure it happens in other parts of the window like plain text or the background? – Synetech Feb 20 '11 at 5:46
If I mouse directly over a link and then click down the mouse wheel, it does not show a scroll circle, but does open a link. But, this is not what I am describing. In my case, I am holding down the mouse wheel (which does bring up the scroll circle), then moving the mouse up and down to scroll the page. The problem is when I release the mouse wheel, if the scroll arrow icon happens to be over a link when I release the wheel, that link is clicked. – Joe Miller Feb 20 '11 at 6:05
I know what you mean and that is not the way it works. When you press the middle button on a link, it never shows the scroll circle regardless of whether you let it go or not. Why is it an issue anyway? Can you not click the middle button somewhere else? When you do, you can release the middle button, you should not need to hold it anyway; just click it, release, then move the mouse up or down to set scroll speed. – Synetech Feb 20 '11 at 6:09
@Joe Miller, > It seems like this is only happening in the Google Chrome browser. Not true. I just tried it in IE, Opera, and FireFox, and all of them behave the same as Chrome: when the middle-button is clicked on a hyperlink, it is opened in a new tab. This is standard behavior for all browser. You could try looking for an option to disable the middle-click-new-tab functionality. – Synetech Mar 4 '11 at 1:43
@Synetech - thanks for the response. To clarify, I am not clicking with the middle-button but rather holding the middle-button down then dragging the mouse to scroll. Eventually when done scrolling, I let up the middle-button. At the point, if the mouse was hovering over a link, it would be clicked. In any case, this issue appears to be fixed in the latest update of Chrome as of 3/31/11. – Joe Miller Mar 31 '11 at 18:20
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it would be clicked. In any case, this issue appears to be fixed in the latest update of Chrome as of 3/31/11.

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