Mouse middle button shortcuts for Browser 0

We often use mouse to quickly navigate to elements on a webpage. While there are Chrome keyboard shortcuts to perform basic tasks quickly in browser, you can also use mouse’s middle button (mouse wheel) for even quicker actions in Chrome. Checkout following listing of mouse middle button shortcuts for browser.

1. Open Links in Browser

Click link with middle mouse button / mousewheel to open link in new tab in the background.
Click link with middle mouse button / mousewheel and press Shift key to open link in a new tab and switch to the newly opened tab.

2. Open buttons in Chrome menu bar ( for Google chrome)

You can click menu buttons like forward, back, refresh with middle mouse button / mousewheel to open them in new tab in the background.

3. Close Tabs in Browser

Click middle mouse button or press mousewheel to close any opened tab.

4. Zoom In / Out webpage

Press Ctrl and scroll your mousewheel up will enlarge or zoom in webpage.
Press Ctrl and scroll your mousewheel down will zoom out and make webpage smaller.

5. Scrolling webpage layout

Press middle mouse button or mousewheel to activate auto scrolling. Move your mouse around auto scroll icon to navigate webpage in desired direction.