225858 - Middle click doesn't close tab. Middle click tries to open url when autoscrolling.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 171132

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Paul Lorenz]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031115 Firebird/0.7
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031115 Firebird/0.7

On windows, a middle click on a tab in the tab bar closes the tab. On linux,
this causes some URL to be loaded (I haven't figured out what URL yet). If it is
a fresh firebird session, it says "This URL is invalid and can not be loaded".
Similarly, if autoscroll is engaged, and the middel mouse button is clicked, the
same thing will happen, if and only if, the mouse cursor is _not_ over the
autoscroll icon (which appears where one first middle clicks to start auto
scrolling).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Middle click on a tab in the tab bar.
2. or
3. Middle click while autoscrolling, somewhere not on the autoscroll icon.

Actual Results:  
The browser attempts to load some URL (not sure where its getting it from,
doesn't seem to be the currently selected text).

Expected Results:  
If middle clicking on a tab, it should have closed that tab. If middle clicking
on the screen to stop autoscroll, it should stop autoscrolling (and nothing else).

I looked for similar bugs, but didn't find anything. Apologize if this is a
duplicate. Inquire for further details if something is unclear. Thanks to all
the mozilla and firebird developers for all their hard work.

Comment 1

[Paul Lorenz]

Also, this has happened on all versions of mozilla and firebird that I have
tried. I am currently using firebird 0.7 on GNU/Linux Debian testing/unstable.

Comment 2

[Paul Lorenz]

If it matters, here is the mouse setup from my XF86Config-4

Section "InputDevice"
                                                                                
# Identifier and driver
                                                                                
    Identifier  "Mouse1"
    Driver "mouse"
    Option "Protocol"           "ExplorerPS/2"
    Option "Device"             "/dev/input/mice"
    Option "Buttons"            "7"
    Option "ZAxisMapping"       "4 5"

EndSection

I'm also using imwheel, so I can use buttons 6 and 7 as back/forward buttons,
imwheel -f -k -b "000067"

with an .imwheelrc of

".*"
None, Thumb1, Alt_L|Left
None, Thumb2, Alt_L|Right

Comment 3

[Robert Mohr]

Reporter, go into about:config and set middleMouse.contentLoadURL to false.  In
UNIX work-alikes, Mozilla attempts to utilize X pasting (middle click pastes the
clipboard) and, as a consequence, some other features are lost.

Marking invalid; reporter--if my instructions don't work, feel free to reopen.

Comment 4

[Jesse Ruderman]

This bug is valid because it would be possible to override the "paste-and-go"
behavior for the tab bar.

Comment 5

[Jesse Ruderman]

But it's a dup of a WONTFIXed bug :/

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