It's a poor but not entirely useless substitute for a real third button. It's unnecessarily hard to push it without also scrolling at the same time, however. Proper mice with three real buttons do exist but they are hard to find.
Posted Oct 1, 2013 21:06 UTC (Tue) by hummassa (subscriber, #307)
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> It's unnecessarily hard to push it without also scrolling at the same time, however
at the house we have some cheap mice, and not one of us has this complaint... the movements (clicking versus scrolling) are just too different.
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Posted Oct 2, 2013 0:00 UTC (Wed) by apoelstra (subscriber, #75205)
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I've had this problem with some mice which have very small scroll increments (typically they make a clicking sound) and which compensate by only sending scroll signals to the PC every 3 or 4 clicks.
With, e.g. the Microsoft white mice I have never had this problem.
It's unfortunately an issue of stupid design rather than build quality, so you can't avoid the problem by just buying expensive mice.