Middle mouse button - Dosen't work at all.

So, my most used action within Firefox was utilizing the middle mouse button in order to open a new tab on a link. Now suddenly after a format on my PC, the middle mouse button refuses to be acknowledged at all by Firefox; can't even hold it down to auto scroll or anything. I want to confirm that the button works on other programs and games with no issues. Using using ctrl/shift+click is not optimal but what I'm doing so far. I'm using the latest version, here's a list of the things I've already tried:
- Checking out all the related about:config's with "middle" as searching field.
- Made a new profile and reset Firefox numerous times
- Disabled/removed addons/extensions
- Wiped and installed Firefox completely - Tried with no addons
- Checked options
So far no luck at all, even tried some other browsers such as aurora & chrome with the same issue essentially.

Well for autoscroll have you made sure it was checked in Options->Advanced ?
So you cannot use Middle-click to open links into a new tab or to middle a tab to close it?
Aurora is not another browser but is the name of one of the four main development channels of Firefox where 29.0a2 is currently on. The others are Release, Beta and Nightly.

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