Firefox/Konqueror tab closing behavior [SOLVED]

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01mf02 · Post by **01mf02** » Sat May 28, 2005 7:38 am

When I have opened some tabs in any web browser (Firefox or Konqueror) and want to close one tab, I usually click it with my middle mouse button. But that wants to open a web site with the text I had copied before. I principally like the way of marking some text and inserting it with the middle mouse button, but in my web browsers I want the middle mouse button to CLOSE a tab. Do you know how this is done?

bcmm · Post by **bcmm** » Sat May 28, 2005 10:49 am

This is default in Firefox on other OSs, but they followed the Linux convention of middle-click pasting on Linux. You can change this by typing about:config in the address bar and setting middlemouse.contentLoadURL to "False" (double click it). IIRC, Konqueror will have a simliarly non-gui option in KDE 3.4.

01mf02 · Post by **01mf02** » Sat May 28, 2005 2:46 pm

Thanks, that worked!

joey_knisch · Post by **joey_knisch** » Sat Dec 17, 2005 12:50 pm

Just found the konqueror solution.

Add MouseMiddleClickClosesTab=true
To the [FMSettings] section of ~/.kde/share/config/konquerorrc

It was one of the only things that kept me from using kde for a while.