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Watch your Mouse! Triple-click saves time & labor

By , 19 Dec 2011
 

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Computer mouse single and double-clicks are widely used in software applications. Less known is the mouse triple-click option, which could increase the convenience and overall productivity of computer operations. You could try this mouse triple-click technique right now, while reading the paragraph and see the result: the entire paragraph got selected.
 
Mouse triple-click feature is implemented in all major web browsers, namely:
  • Microsoft Internet Explorer IE7+

  • Mozilla Firefox 3.6+

  • Google Chrome (any version)

  • Apple Safari 2.0+

The tricky part is to select the textual fragment containing the hyperlinks on the web page; in this case, do the triple-click while pointing the cursor slightly to the right of the hyperlink "hot spot" in order to avoid the page redirection to the target URL.

Mouse triple-click
feature is also implemented in many popular text editing software apps, like, for example, Microsoft Word (wider set of options is available in Microsoft Word, including the combination of mouse-click with Ctrl button).

More reading on Examiner
: Computer mouse triple-click is a convenient feature[^].
 

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Dr. A. Bell has 20+ years of SW/EE experience, published 200+ tech articles and authored 37 inventions; Win/Web veteran, currently focused on: HTML5, CSS3, Javascript, jQuery, SQL, Windows 8, .NET, C#, WPF, Ultrabooks, Mobile. Developed popular Silverlight Media Player, 3 Fractions Calculator and best YouTube API for ASP.NET (#1 Goog). Sample pubs/projects:
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GeneralMy vote of 5memberPranit Kothari12 Jul '12 - 21:51 
GeneralMy vote of 5memberAbinash Bishoyi2 May '12 - 20:32 
GeneralRe: My vote of 5memberDrABELL3 May '12 - 5:54 
Generalreally it good we never think like that!!!!!!memberchetan virkar28 Feb '12 - 17:02 
GeneralRe: Thank you!memberDrABELL28 Feb '12 - 18:20 
GeneralI usually use it for URL selection from URL bar, i wont coun...memberraju dasa25 Dec '11 - 5:42 
GeneralReason for my vote of 5 CoolmemberAshley Davis19 Dec '11 - 18:41 
GeneralRe: Many Thanks! :)memberDrABELL19 Dec '11 - 18:49 
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GeneralRe: You are very welcome!memberDrABELL19 Sep '11 - 10:26 
GeneralReason for my vote of 5 Nice Tipmemberrajeevtechnical19 Sep '11 - 1:22 
GeneralRe: Thanks!memberDrABELL19 Sep '11 - 2:13 
GeneralReason for my vote of 4 I have been using this for a log tim...memberqadirv18 Sep '11 - 19:27 
GeneralRe: Well, you can call it in different ways, but the "triple-cli...memberDrABELL19 Sep '11 - 2:18 
GeneralI'm sorry. Thanks for noticing me about that .memberchong_yan16 Sep '11 - 22:32 
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GeneralWow, I didn't know that! Have a 5.subeditorWalt Fair, Jr.7 Sep '11 - 12:38 
GeneralRe: Thanks, Walt!memberDrABELL7 Sep '11 - 13:17 
GeneralWhat works best is to use Safari v5+ for reading an article ...memberGary Noter10 Jun '11 - 13:14 
GeneralRe: Hi Gary, Very interesting technique, thanks for sharing! My ...memberDrABELL10 Jun '11 - 16:55 
GeneralIf Triple clicking seems cumbersome you can double click and...memberBillHudson31 May '11 - 7:50 
GeneralRe: Hi Bill, Thanks for posting. Just for the clarity purpose: d...memberDrABELL31 May '11 - 14:42 
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GeneralMy vote of 5 its cool tips :)mvpRaviRanjankr17 May '11 - 9:51 

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