166823 - middle-click on tab-handle

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 107147

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Roland Seuhs]

In Mozilla 1.0 when you middle-clicked on a tab-handle, that tab was closed.

In Mozilla 1.1 it tries to load whatever junk is in the clipboard (which in most
cases results in an error and in an unwanted page in the rest of cases).

Please change it back to the old behaviour or at least make it configurable.

Comment 1

[Frederic Bezies]

WFM - trunk build 2002090415 - WinXP.

Thanks for the info, I do not know this feature :-)

Comment 2

[Quinn Yost (mythdraug)]

Setting the following pref to false will disable this feature.

middlemouse.paste

Comment 3

[Roland Seuhs]

I added   user_pref("middlemouse.paste", false);  to prefs.js and did not notice any difference. (It still trys to open what is in the clipboard)  Anyway, I'd really like to have Mozilla1.0's behaviour back because it's the best method to get rid of the tabs you don't need anymore.  Mozilla already accepts the middlemouse-paste *anywhere* on the page, so this "feature" is already covered, there is no need to extend this to the tab-handles, IMO.   

Comment 4

[Roland Seuhs]

Now I know what  user_pref("middlemouse.paste", false); does: It prevents pasting into forms (which is a feature I use and 
like) but still tries to load the goddamn clipboard. 
 

Comment 5

[Malcolm Scott]

You might want to add this line to your prefs.js:

user_pref("middlemouse.contentLoadURL", false);

This bug is probably either invalid or a dupe of bug 107147.

Comment 6

[alanjstr]

Sounds like a dupe to me

Comment 7

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

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