171391 - Middle click on background of any page brings up random page.

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Rob North]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20020919
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20020919

Nothing to add to summary!

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Browse to page
2. Middle-Click on background, or on non link text


Actual Results:  
A random web page is displayed.
Within each mozilla session, a particular web page is displayed.
The web page changes randomly between sessions.

Expected Results:  
No action

Have the "Open tabs instead of windows for" "Middle-click or control click in a
web page" preference selected.
If you need to know of any other preference settings, pleas ask.

Comment 1

[Henri Sivonen (:hsivonen)]

This is a feature. Middle clicking non-link on non-form widget loads the URL
from the clipboard. This is analoguos to URL drag&drop onto the content area on Mac.

Comment 2

[Rob North]

Ahhhh, I understand now, and feel rarther foolish.


If anyone still feels this is a bug maybe they should look at bug 70498
They may also want to consider adding the following preference to
their user.js file:
"middlemouse.contentLoadURL"

Maybe consider making this a duplicate of bug 70498, instead of marking it as
invlaid?

A search for the string "middlemouse.contentLoadURL" in bugzilla also turns up a
nice list of interesting bugs.
of related bugs.