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How do you scroll a second window without moving your mouse out of a web page?

So, some websites I've visited do some tricks with the mouse, especially when you leave a web page. They detect this and perform some action, like show you an advertisement or force a prompt to the ...
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How to configure Windows 10 for "keyboard focus follows mouse" without clicking into the window and without raising the window?

The context This is using Windows 10, Version 10.0.16299 Build 16299 The question What I need is the window to remain in the background (perhaps covered up with other windows), but when I move the ...
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How to redefine mouse click onto Firefox' address bar to work as Ctrl+L

I want to increase my personal privacy, and I mean it from the ground. I deleted Windows and have Linux only. I bought a VPN with cryptocurrency, decided to move away from Chrome and Google as a ...
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Prevent mouse over to give focus in ConEmu

In ConEmu when I have multiple panes active, a pane will get the focus when I move the mouse cursor over it, even if I don't click on the pane. Is it possible to disable this behavior?
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How to make the scroll wheel to affect always what's under the mouse pointer? [duplicate]

It happens to me so many times that I roll the scroll wheel over some scrollable element, but the thing DOES NOT SCROLL. What's worse, something else on another part of the screen may scroll. I know ...
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Geting focus when rotating mouse wheel

In Ubuntu when you rotate mouse wheel while mouse pointer is in a region (for example you can volume up or down without any click while you rotate mouse on volume icon in system trey), that region ...
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On Windows 7, is there any way to make the scrollwheel's focus follow the mouse?

On Mac OS X I can mouse over something (without clicking on it or giving it complete focus) and use the scroll wheel to scroll it. On Windows (7 at least) which I'm forced to use in my new job, it ...
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