121756 - Middle mouse click on tab causes previous tab to go back a page.

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 107147

(SeaMonkey :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[jorge o. castro]

I believe this is related to bug 107147 (middle mouseclick to close tab
conflicts with paste function in linux).

Reproduction: 
Open multiple tabs with middle mouse button.
Select the last tab (on the right).
Close tab with middle mouse button.
The previous tag (on the left) immediately begins to reload.
Close that tab.
Next tag to the left does the same thing.
Repeat for all tabs.

If the tag to the left has a history to it, it will reload the previous page (as
if hitting the back button)

Workaround: Hitting the X on the right side of the tab menu will close the tab
properly, without affecting the other tabs.

Seen on:
Every .9.7 Debian Linux package
Latest builds on Red Hat 7.2
I'm also using Mozilla on Windows XP and Windows98SE and have not encountered
this problem.

Comment 1

[Andrew Schultz]

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.7+) Gecko/20020123

When I do this, the tab closes, and the newly focused tab attempts to do
paste-text-as-url.  I can get closer to what you describe if I

1) select the URL in tab #1
2) goto tab #2
3) close tab #2 with middle-click

can you verify that you're seeing something different than (or the same as!) me
by replacing #1 above with:

1) selecting some random text
1.5) Edit->Copy (just to make sure, #1 should be sufficient most of the time) 

in addition to using the "X", you can also right-click to close the tab as a
workaround.

Comment 2

[R.K.Aa.]

resolving as dup of bug 107147.
Please add comment if this bug remains after 107147 is fixed.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 107147 ***

Comment 3

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

vrfy dup