RHEL4 Step-by-Step Guide - Keyboard Shortcuts
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/step-guide/ap-keyboard-shortcuts.html
http://linux-newbie.dotsrc.org/html/lnag.html#6.Linux%20Shortcuts%20and%20Commands|outline
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Use_Multimedia_Keys

HOWTO Advanced Mouse - Gentoo Linux Wiki
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Advanced_Mouse

Firefox Help: Keyboard & Mouse Shortcuts
http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/keyboard
http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/mouse
http://www.mouserunner.com/FF_Shortcuts1Printable.html
http://www.7is7.com/software/firefox/shortcuts.html

Many Firefox Addons & Tweaks can reconfigure keyboard & mouse bindings. 
This makes it is quite easy to confuse and override the default linux or 
window-manager mouse/keyboard behavior.
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Mouse_tips
http://www.thetlog.net/2006/07/28/firefox-tip-closing-tabs-with-middle-click-on-linux/

Firefox - Keyconfig extension
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Keyconfig_extension
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Keyboard_shortcut_registry_for_extension_authors_(Firefox)

Firefox - TabMixPlus settings
http://tmp.garyr.net/help/

All-in-One Gestures - Firefox Add-ons
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/12/
Firefox Mouse Gestures - Firefox Add-ons
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/39/

-HTH Art



Troy Dawson wrote:
> Hi Ioannis,
> There are two different things going on.
>
> The first is probably very familiar to most long term linux users.  
> And that is the quick cut and past you can do with a mouse.
> On Linux there is often no need to do "highlight with mouse" -> 
> "Ctrl-c" -> "Click where you want to paste" -> "Ctrl-v".
> You can use the mouse shortcut which is "Highlight with mouse" -> 
> "Click middle mouse button on the spot where you want it pasted"
> The wheel on wheel mice acts as the third button.  Clicking both the 
> left and right button at the same time also acts as the third button.
> Once you get used to this functionality, you really find it hard going 
> back to a windows box that doesn't have it.
> *note* There are some applications where this doesn't work.  But it 
> does work in the majority of applications.
>
> The second feature you are seeing is a feature in firefox.  It has 
> alot of shortcuts.  One of those shortcuts is a 'goto' feature.  
> Basically highlight some works, and middle click.  It will perform a 
> 'goto' search in google, and take you to that site.
> A real time saver.  A real pain.  You choose.
> I'm not certain which parameter it is, so I don't know how to turn it 
> off.
>
> Troy
>
> Ioannis Vranos wrote:
>> OS: Scientific Linux 4.4 x86
>>
>>
>> While I was looking at web page with Firefox 1.5.0.10. I just got to 
>> a google page saying: Your search - "Goto first unread ocd * 123don't 
>> know how to get better" - did not match any documents. In the address 
>> bar there is: "keyword:Goto first unread ocd  * 123don't know how to 
>> get better".
>>
>>
>> Wondering how did I get there I thought that I was using the mouse 
>> wheel which is also a button (two normal buttons and the mouse wheel 
>> in the middle, also being a button). I repressed this middle 
>> mouse-wheel button, and got to a site
>>
>> http://www.livescience.com/forcesofnature/070302_precip_mysteries.html
>>
>> and after repressing it to a site 
>> http://www.nationalgeographic.com/forcesofnature/
>>
>> !!!
>>
>>
>> I checked some sub-sentences of this text, in the page I was viewing 
>> but came with nothing.
>>
>>
>>
>> Now I am pressing the middle button in this Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 
>> message and I get:
>>
>> gotgotgotgotgotgotgotgotgotgotgotgotgotgot
>>
>>
>> Previously I had pressed it in here, and if I recall well I got 
>> another URL!
>>
>>
>> In gedit, I pressed the middle button for few times, some minutes 
>> before and got:
>>
>>
>> forcesofnature/070302_precip_mysteries.htmlforcesofnature/070302_precip_mysteries.htmlforcesofnature/070302_precip_mysteries.htmlforcesofnature/070302_precip_mysteries.htmlforcesofnature/070302_precip_mysteries.htmlforcesofnature/070302_precip_mysteries.html 
>>
>>
>>
>> !!
>>
>>
>> Now pressing the middle button in gedit gives nothing!
>>
>>
>> Now pressing the middle button in this Thunderbird plain-text message 
>> moves the cursor where the mouse pointer is.
>>
>>
>>
>> What is going on?! Any ideas?
>
>