Open Bug 1414856 Opened 8 years ago Updated 8 years ago

Middle mouse requires url with a colon, short urls (like mozilla.org) can't be opened

Categories

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

SeaMonkey 2.49 Branch
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

UNCONFIRMED

People

(Reporter: lam, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 SeaMonkey/2.49.1 Build ID: 20171022013242 Steps to reproduce: Made sure middlemouse.contentLoadURL is true. Copied "mozilla.org" with a mouse and tried middle-clicking on a new tab. Actual results: Nothing. Expected results: SeaMonkey 2.48 (and any previous version) would open mozilla.org. SeaMonkey 2.49.1 will happily try to open something that's not an URL (like "C:" or "Magic: The Gathering") as long as it starts with a letter and has a colon inside. But it won't open actual websites (like "mozilla.org" or "lac.pl") without a "http:". Yes, "http:mozilla.org" works, no slashes needed. This also happens in IceCat 52.3.0, but does NOT happen in Firefox 56.0 - maybe it is some kind of Firefox ESR 52 bug?
Is this Linux specific? > middle-clicking on a new tab Could you explain that? Is that middle-clicking on the 'Open a new tab' "button"?
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