I recently purchased a really cool Logitech V470 Bluetooth mouse for my new work laptop. It worked well from though I did install the software that came with it just to make sure it did. I have other Logitech mice and they all work the same when you click the scroll dial in the middle of the mouse – it acts as the middle button.
The middle button usually has the functionality of opening a link you click on in your browser in a new tab. Therefore, it is very useful – you get information without losing the current context of what you are reading. As a result, I expected this behavior to be there by default when I loaded the new mouse software on the machine.
Surprisingly, Logitech does not regard the scroll wheel/button by default as the middle button. Instead, it assigns it the behavior of ‘Zoom’. Zoom does nothing in Firefox and I do not really need that. Doubt anyone does. So I started looking around to find out where I can change that setting from within the Logitech SetPoint software which you can see below.
The middle mouse button functionality was buried deep under the ‘Other’ setting. Once set, your mouse will go back to behaving as it should – or at least as I think it should.
