Single Finger FORCE click does not cancel single finger click

Describe the bug
Single Finger FORCE click on the trackpad does not cancel a single click. This is most noticable when force clicking links in Firefox. I have configured force click to act as a middle mouse button. Middle clicking a link in Firefox would usually open a new tab with the link you just clicked, but here is does that and also single clicks the link causing it to open in the current tab.


Affected input device (e.g. MacBook Trackpad, Magic Mouse/Trackpad, Touch Bar, etc.):
MacBook Trackpad


Device information:

  • Type of Mac: MacBook Air M1 2020
  • macOS version: Sequoia 15.6
  • BetterTouchTool version: 5.549 2025080603

I'm not answering to your question (if it is a bug or not), but here's a workaround for your case:

Unfortunately the click can not be blocked in this scenario for technical reasons (which is why I initially didn't add this functionality). However there are often workarounds like the one described by @xidiot

@xidiot Thanks for the suggestion of a workaround. This does work for the one example of a link but unfortunately doesn't seem to truly emulate a middle mouse button press so any other functions expecting a middle mouse button do not work

@Andreas_Hegenberg Thank you for the explanation. Its curious that the middle click action cannot block the single click and custom click action set to middle cannot either, but a custom click action set to left plus command can. Is that just because the left is technically triggered twice just with a command in the second part?

the cmd custom click also doesn't block the original, but it interferes with the original left click due to the modifier added. That's because links are usually only opened on mouse-up and if after mouse-down a modifier is added, that modifier will be used.