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When I hover on tabs in chrome and scroll the mouse wheel, the tabs are changing focus. This feature is really annoying for me and i want to turn it off. Any ideas?

P.S. The way I usually close an opened tab is to hover the pointer over that tab and click the wheel (also known as middle button). This feature is kind of a convention and is available in many applications.

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tabWheeler has the functions that you describe, and works for me under Ubuntu. Maybe you have it installed? It does not have any options (and is quite invisible), and works as long as it's installed and active. Link: chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tabwheeler/… – Esso Feb 2 at 17:26
ok, I do it very often because I have a mouse with a more sensitive wheel scroll (Logitech m705) and if i want to close a tab by pressing the scroll button when , it usually scrolls to another tab. :| @Esso: will try to find that extension – NiCU Feb 2 at 17:27
I have only one extension installed in chrome (adBlocker - blocks all ads.) I also installed tabwheeler thinking it will provide me a way to stop this behavior but it didn't – NiCU Feb 2 at 17:48
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try to find this option here chrome://flags/ – titusjaka Mar 9 at 11:51

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There is extension to chrome called Chrome Toolbox that does just that. Use it myself.

Chrome Toolbox

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Can you explain how you managed to see all those options (for me are just 3 or for and are not really useful) in the general tab – NiCU Mar 25 at 21:32
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Holy-Cow I'm at work.... the non-linux version here has it. but my laptop (ubuntu) dosen't. when I get home I'll find a solution!! – Scott Goodgame Mar 25 at 21:49

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