Does anyone else find themselves inadvertently opening links you don't want to open when you're reading a webpage?

It drives me crazy. I'm reading/surfing/shopping whatever, and all of a sudden a new window opens. I presume I'm lingering too long on the trackpad or something while the cursor is over an ad link, but I can't figure out exactly how it happens enough to stop the goddamn thing. Whether its peculiar to the browser (I usually use safari), the mac, the trackpad, me, whatever.

Any suggestions?

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If you go into your System Options and turn off the "tap" feature of your trackpad, this will be less likely to happen. I am not sure exactly what it is called in English. My Macbook Pro is fully German localized.

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Wade: If you want to do this, go into System Preferences (the icon that looks like a light switch), click on Trackpad, and under Trackpad Gestures deactivate "Clicking." Then you'll have to click the old-fashioned way. (I use my Mac's trackpad for clicking, and I use Safari, and I haven't had the problem you describe.)

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Thanks to NSD and Greg!

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