162859 - Middle click on <select> box causes browser to visit URL

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 70498

(Core :: DOM: UI Events & Focus Handling, defect)

Description

[peter_c60]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020529
BuildID:    2002052918

If you middle click on a dropdown box or list box created via the <select>
element on a page, the browser interprets whatever text is currently in the
clipboard as an URL and takes you there.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to the above URL or any page containing a <select> element.
2. Select some text in Mozilla or any other application thereby putting it in
the clipboard. (e.g. select "Bugzilla" in above page).
3. Middle click on the list/dropdown box.


Actual Results:  Browser goes to the URL in the clipboard (e.g.
http://www.bugzilla.com, a website about somebody's car). If no text is in the
clipboard then nothing happens.

Expected Results:  Nothing happens.

A minimal test case:

<form><select></select></form>

Comment 1

[Bosko]

I believe that the expected result should be: "set focus to select box",because
this is what happens in other browsers (like Konqueror) when you middle click on
a select.
Anyways,I was able to reproduce this bug with Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686;
en-US; rv:1.1b) Gecko/20020722, Build ID: 2002072204.

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Well... if you middle-click on _anything_ that has no paste or middle-click
behavior defined (eg text, <select>, checkboxes, etc) the default behavior is to
treat the text being pasted as a url and go to it.

Why should <select> have special middle-click or paste behavior, exactly?

Comment 3

[peter_c60]

Well, it isn't logical to do anything when you paste into a select box so the
browser should just do nothing, beep (or some other sign that you cannot do
this) or focus the select box as mentioned in comment 1. This should also apply
to check boxes etc. The summary also ought to be changed to something more
meaningful.

Comment 4

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

What about just pasting on random text in the browser window?

Comment 5

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 70498 ***

Comment 6

[Trix Supremo]

verifying dupe