299913 - Middle click does not open new tab Alert: The URL is not valid and cannot be loaded. / alert is not a registered protocol.

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 299901

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[Steven]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-US; rv:1.7.9) Gecko/20050706 Firefox/1.0.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-US; rv:1.7.9) Gecko/20050706 Firefox/1.0.5

Middle clicking on the recent articles at the top of the page generates the
error message "Alert: The URL is not valid and cannot be loaded." / "Alert:
alert is not a registered protocol." or it brings browser to http://./  However,
left clicking the recent articles opens them in the same window/tab.  Right
clicking and selecting open link in new tab opens the link in a new tab.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. http://www.tomshardware.com/index.html
2. middle click Recent Articles (top of page with small pics)
Actual Results:  
error message Alert: The URL is not valid and cannot be loaded.
or error message Alert: alert is not a registered protocol.
or directs browser to http://./

Expected Results:  
link should open in new tab

Comment 1

[Andrew Schultz]

the link is not recognized, so it tries to do middle-click-loads-clipboard

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 299901 ***