Questions you don't know the answer to!

[Goldom]

Whose bright idea was it that "backspace" would be the key to go back a page in web browsers? Sure, it's handy and all when I'm too lazy to reach to the mouse, but I'll be typing something in a form, try to erase it, and suddenly realize my cursor has decided to no longer be in the form, and I am sent back god only knows how many pages I held it down for.

[samwisefoxburr]

1. Get a five button mouse...

...usually (at least on the Microsoft mice) the fourth and fifth buttons are forward and back in web browsers. It's SOOO handy!

[Goldom]

3. nononoooo

I want LESS buttons that take me places!! I got a ... *counts* 5 button mouse with my comp when I got it, and promptly threw it onto the old one and kept my older 3-button. I kept hitting the 2 on the side all the time without meaning to.

Speaking of which, my current mouse is the 2nd one of it's kind I've had, the first one's left button started being unresponsive in the upper corner, and now this one's doing it too. I know this must mean it's not a great design, though the 2 together have lasted maybe 5 years. Anyway, I want another one. I want to buy enough to never have to get another kind till mice no longer exist. It is the ONLY mouse I have ever found that isn't designed to be right or left handed. Now, I am right handed, but I still find the thumb-contouring uncomfortable. This is the closest to it I can still find anywhere, but mine is a pretty metallic red instead of this black, or blue ones which are prevalant on ebay.

http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/products/details/US/EN,CRID=2142,CONTENTID=5928

if anyone sees one of those in red - I want!!

edit - here's an unlinked page that still shows it.
http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm?page=products/details&CRID=3&CONTENTID=4993&countryid=15&languageid=1
but no links to buy it either.

[Winamericaback]

6. hmm I'm using a white one right now

that I've had for oh I'm guessing three years. Its been through 2 computer changes. I bought it as soon as I realized I wouldn't need a freaking mouse pad anymore with it.

I bought it at staples.. but not sure if they have them in red.. Try froogle.com

[princehal]

2. Hey!

I never knew this. Dang!

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

4. well, that would be the UNIX crowd and Lynx, the first

web browser worth a crap.

but, what is all this talk of buttons on mice? you mean there is more than one?

[Goldom]

5. A winner is me!

I found one!!! Finally! Yay for obscure online stores I wouldn't trust with a penny except it was run through yahoo shops. Now I am set for another 2-3 years.

[fleabert]

7. i never knew that. Guess it has to happen to you or you read about it...

thanks!