127689 - Middle-click "paste" feature is annoying.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 57317

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[bugzilla]

My mouse, like many mice, has a "button 2" which is also a scroll wheel.  If I
am scrolling, it is fairly likely that I will occasionally accidentally send a
button-2.

Mozilla treats this click as guidance to take whatever's in the paste buffer,
append ".com" to it, and announce that there's no such site.  Occasionally, if
there's a URL in the paste buffer, Mozilla jumps to that URL.

I do not want this.  I recognize that this might occasionally be a useful
feature, if I were doing it on purpose, but I'm not, and it's such a common
error on mice with scroll wheels that I think it's probably a loss.

On observation, I note that the scroll wheel only works when the mouse is in a
given frame.  Perhaps this feature should only be enabled when the mouse is over
the toolbar, navigation bar, etcetera?

Comment 1

[Chu Alan]

ugh ... is it a dup of bug 85667 ?

and, reporter, i think solution to your problem is here :
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70498#c1

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

We have a pref you can turn off to disable this behavior.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 57317 ***