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When I press middle mouse button, it opens:

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It is so difficult to control the scrolling. Is there any way to disable this?

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tsk, no hand drawn circle? – hyperslug Sep 21 '09 at 6:30
@Hemant, Chrome I assume? – hyperslug Sep 21 '09 at 6:39
Yes. I am using Chrome. – Hemant Sep 21 '09 at 6:39
Obvious answer: Can't you just not press the middle button then? – Matthew Lock Sep 21 '09 at 7:45
I need to press it to open the page in new tab, but sometimes this scrolling is enabled accidentally. – Hemant Sep 21 '09 at 8:11
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In your mouse control panel, you need to disable the middle button, if it will allow you to.

The multi-directional cursor vs a standard up/down cursor should also be because your window is too small, and has both vertical and horizontal scroll bars.

If you make your window bigger, the scroll should only be up/down :)

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He'll probably want to keep middle button for stuff like Open link in new tab. – hyperslug Sep 21 '09 at 6:33
Yeah...Cant loose "Open link in new tab". Just want to disable the scrolling. – Hemant Sep 21 '09 at 6:41
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I guess you're at a loss then. Chrome isn't exactly a very configurable browser. And yes, middle-click scrolling there sucks (it's interestingly also magnitudes slower than normal scrolling, I just wonder why). You might be able to rip that functionality out of the source and build yourself but for a project that size it's not a pretty task to do. – Joey Sep 21 '09 at 6:55
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You can post a feature request here: code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/… – hyperslug Sep 21 '09 at 7:00
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I control-click for Open in New Tab :) – warren Sep 21 '09 at 12:14
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