222640 - mouse clicks for tabbed browsing different in Windows and Linux

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 171132

(SeaMonkey :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[Helmut Leininger]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6a) Gecko/20031016
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6a) Gecko/20031016

In Windows 2000 when there are some tabs open in the browser, the tab closes if
you middle-click it with the mouse.
In Linux it does not,instead it starts searching something (from the clipboard?).

Note:
Middle-click on a link works ok (opens a new tab).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Hermann Schwab]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.6a) Gecko/20031017

I don´t see this on Win98, middle click does nothing to this tab.
Tested with all combinations of preferences:
Tabbed browsing: middle click opens: on/off
Advanced->mousewheel: uses system default on/off

Maybe it´s your mousedriver?

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

On Linux, a middle-paste on a window will try to load PRIMARY as a URL.  Not
sure how this should interact with the tabbar, but the conflict has been
mentioned before...

Comment 3

[Jesse Ruderman]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 171132 ***