1209894 - Lenovo/IBM TrackPoint: Middle Mouse config is ignored

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 266985

(Firefox :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[Holger Schmeken]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:41.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/41.0
Build ID: 20150917150946

Steps to reproduce:

I use Lenovo TrackPoint with HID conformant drivers (just the drivers supported by the OS). Scrolling the page works by clicking the middle button in Firefox. However when the scolling is initiated while the pointer is on a link something unexpected happens. It is unexpected because previous versions of Firefox did behave according to these adjustments in about:config:

1) middlemouse.openNewWindow = false
2) browser.tabs.opentabformiddleclick = false


Actual results:

Firefox will open a new empty window when the scrolling is initiated on a link. With initiated I mean that I will click middle mouse to make Firefox aware that I want to start scrolling with the TrackPoint.

If Firefox would just open a new window that shows the linked content I would assume that the first config setting is ignored. But Firefox is always opening an empy page when I use middle mouse on a link.


Expected results:

Firefox should behave according to the config settings:

1) it should not open a new window (obey middlemouse.openNewWindow = false)
2) it should not open a new tab (obey browser.tabs.opentabformiddleclick = false)

I just want to use middle mouse for scrolling.

Comment 1

[Holger Schmeken]

Did some more testing:

It seems that config middlemouse.openNewWindow = false is just ignored. Thus Firefox will always open the link in a new window.

Comment 2

[alex_mayorga]

¡Hola Holger!

This quacks like a duplicate of https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=266985

Does fiddling with middlemouse.contentLoadURL help things? See http://kb.mozillazine.org/Middlemouse.openNewWindow

¡Gracias!
Alex