184454 - CTRL + middle-click paste (Linux) loads URL in active tab, too

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 219378

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Tibor Csögör]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021207 Phoenix/0.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021207 Phoenix/0.5

Ctrl + middle-click on blank area schould open up a new tab and load the content
of the clipboard as a URL. Works fine, however with the side-effect that the
active tab (or blank window) loads the URL, too.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. copy a URL into the clipboard
   (i.e. by right-clicking on a link and selecting "Copy Link location")
2. press CTRL + middle-mouse-button in the content area

Actual Results:  
You end up with two tabs (the active and a new one) loading the same URL.

Expected Results:  
Load URL in clipboard in a new tab.

Comment 1

[David P James]

How annoying... I didn't even realize this was possible (Ctrl + Middle-Click
Paste that is).

-->Tweaking summary
-->Confirmed

Comment 2

[Sébastien Delahaye]

*** Bug 185116 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3

[Jay Knight]

Offtopic, i know, but is there a way to disable the middle-click loading a url,
making it close a tab, like windows?

Comment 4

[Tibor Csögör]

Attachment: fixes middleMousePaste(event) in browser.js

Comment 5

[Tibor Csögör]

FIXED (see attachment above for patch)

Note that the code for middleMousePaste(event) in browser.js derives from
components/contentAreaClick.js. The function defined in latter may be obsolete
but it's still there (and confused me a bit).

Comment 6

[David P James]

This hasn't been 'fixed' since the patch hasn't been reviewed and checked-in 
yet. 

Comment 7

[David P James]

Brian: 
 
Can you take a look at the patch for this please? It's just a one word tweak. 

Comment 8

[Tibor Csögör]

Attachment: fixes middleMousePaste(event) in browser.js

This one also fixes another bug which prevents you from CTRL+middleclick
pasting a domain name (e.g. 'mozilla.org' _without_ 'http://' prefix) and get
it loaded into	a new tab.

Comment 9

[Steffen Wilberg]

This was fixed by bug 219378, filed by the same reporter. A comment would've
been nice in this bug...

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 219378 ***

Comment 10

[Steffen Wilberg]

Comment on attachment 141012 [details] [diff] [review]
fixes middleMousePaste(event) in browser.js

This patch was never applied and is now obsolete.