Thanks Des I'm not holding the button for too long but I had been playing with the mouse setting in KDE cntrl ctr. Now I have reset them to defaults konq is behaving as normal. Problem though - I had altered them to try and overcome a problem when clicking through directory trees. Even short clicks on a directory were selecting it for copy. I reported this as a bug. I'm using an rf optical mouse that has a lot of gain and have noticed that windoze 2k seems to have one or two problems with this type of mouse. Fade in drop downs sometimes hangs semi transparent. On KDE I've also had erratic movement and sudden jumps in the wrong direction. The gain is so high that I have to slow right down on a select and the cursor movement is sometimes a bit odd at that point. Any thoughts anybody? I've also tried 2 roller ball rf mice with lower gain. These are easier to use but still suffer the select as copy problem and less frequent erratic movement. Same 2k issue though. No problems with an rf keyboard. The mice sleep unless they are used. The optical rf's have to be clicked to awaken them as the led has to be alight to detect movement. This is all happening on a 2.6+ athlon, suse9 and ps2 incase that has anything to do with it. Mice and keyboard from Trust and one roller ball from Pakard Bell. It's an excellent keyboard by todays standards. I still long for the keyboard feel that used to be shipped with Vax etc though. regards john On Thursday 06 May 2004 23:28, Des Dougan wrote: > On Thu, 2004-05-06 at 11:33 +0100, John wrote: > > Hi > > I recently upgraded my suse 9 installation. This may have something to do > > with the following. I HATE IT. HOW CAN I TURN IT OFF ?? > > > > When I hit the back button instead of going back to the previous page I > > was on I'm offered a drop down list of various pages. I don't remember > > page links. I'm not interested - I just want to get back to the page I > > last used. The same thing happens with the up button - which is even > > worse. > > > > If I can't turn it off - can I set konq so that any click on a link on > > page allways opens a fresh window? That would be a useful feature. > > Failing that sorry but are there any replacements. > > That behaviour normally happens when you hold the button down for too > long - are you sure that's not what is happening here? > > Des ___________________________________________________ . Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.