[bloopernova]

I just wish that MX Master 3 had a couple of extra buttons by the thumb.

My 3 thumb buttons on my Logitech G500 are mapped to: Page Up, Page Down, and Back. Clicking and holding the Page Up button can rapidly take me back to the top of a page without moving my right hand to hit the home key on my keyboard. It's pretty useful, in my opinion, to be able to roughly and quickly scroll with Page Up/Down, then fine tune with the scroll wheel.

Looks like with the MX 3, I'd lose the back button though, because I really don't like the "gesture button" they've added.

Is the thumb-wheel on the MX 3 "clickable"?

[hinkley]

Do you know about the button in the thumb rest? That'll be #3 for me. It looks like in the Logitech literature this is called the 'gesture button', and if memory serves it was introduced on the original MX, when they took away the third thumb button.

https://scdn.slashgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/logite...

[hinkley]

I think the original MX (what was it called, the 1000? Revolution?) had the three buttons and no thumbwheel and it was great for reading code and for playing a couple video games.

When they added the thumb wheel they moved the buttons too far back to be used comfortably. So it went in a drawer and I went back to the old one, found someone with leftover inventory and bought a spare for when the first wore out. When the second finally gave up the ghost I was not really playing those games anymore, but I still miss scanning code with page-up/page-down.

The 3 seems to compromise between the two. I just noticed it was available a couple days ago, so I'll be ordering one soon I expect.

[TheSoftwareGuy]

Thumb buttons are hugely under-rated in my opinion. Its the sole reason I bought my G600.

[hinkley]

I used to play a melee character in a game, and I had the buttons mapped to autorun, stop autorun, and back up. I never had to move my hands to follow a target, which greatly improved my uptime.

I think on the later mouse, with only two buttons, I retrained myself to use 'back up' to stop autorun, but it was important to me that I could mash the first button to start running and not have to worry about how many times I hit it.

Like OP said, for other apps I had it mapped to page-up/-down and back button and it made it a lot easier to focus on the code or documentation I was reading, instead of on navigating.

[dirtyid]

Thumb buttons + shift mode.

How has there not been wireless G600 yey.

[jiofih]

If the wheel is 90% faster it seems like you don’t need page up/down shortcuts.

[Nowyouknow]

> Is the thumb-wheel on the MX 3 "clickable"?

It is not, unfortunately.

[pitaj]

That is unfortunate. Huge turn-off.