Ok, this really isn’t news worthy, but I’m still in shock after reading the latest entry on ZDNet’s Googling Google blog. What got me is when the author states, For example, one of the “improvements” they made was the ability to close a tab using - get this - middle click. Who in the modern world uses middle click? Is this intuitive for anybody?Ok, what time period are you living in Garett? First off, you are covering Google one of the biggest names on the web. I don’t see how you cannot be familiar with Opera, Firefox, or at least IE7. All three web browsers support a tabbed UI, and in doing so, they also allow users to close a tab via the middle click.

It’s not just a web browser (or even Internet) centric thing either… Notepad++, a text editor, operates the same way. I’d bet money that if I tried it in Photoshop and Dreamweaver they’d operate exactly like that as well. Trillian and multi-protocol IM client does I know.

Who uses middle click Garett? The question really is who doesn’t. I suppose Apple users don’t… People on a laptop with a touch pad probably don’t… of course anyone with a 2 button mouse from 1980 won’t be… oh yeah, and if you’ve been living under a rock it’ll probably be new to you as well.