Why Swap Mouse Right Button and Middle Button

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Why Swap Mouse Right Button and Middle Button

The right-click action is not much used, and middle-click is much useful. And right button is much easier to press than pressing the mouse wheel.

Right-click activates a context menu. For majority of people, that's mostly used in browser, and not very often.

The mouse middle button by default does several more useful things in all major browsers:

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