226747 - middle mouse button causes mozilla to visit random website

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 274773

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Chris]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 Firebird/0.7
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 Firebird/0.7

Sometimes the problem will just give an error saying 'the url is invalid and
can't be loaded', or something along those lines.. however, most times, when I
click the wheel button on my mouse to get the 'scroll' icon, and move the mouse,
then middle click again, mozilla will bring me to some really odd website where
the URL was nowhere to be found on the given site. First time brought me to a
journal website, second time gave me the error, third time brought me to
mozillazine.com

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. click middle mouse button once
2. move cursor away from 'scroll' icon
3. click middle mouse button again

Actual Results:  
Mozilla brought me to an apparantly totally random website.

Expected Results:  
nothing?

Comment 1

[Robert Mohr]

I'm assuming this is Mozilla's X-pasting implementation, which I don't much
like.  To turn it off so that the middle button acts more like it does in
Windows, set 'middleMouse.contentLoadURL' to false in about:config.  If this
fixes your problem, please resolve this bug invalid.

Comment 2

[Bob Firth]

yeah, it's definitely the middle click paste thing, if you have text in your
buffer it usually googles it and takes you to the "I'm feeling lucky" page for
that search string. The fix suggested in comment #1 works for me, so marking
invalid, let us know if you keep seeing the problem after setting that pref. :0)

Comment 3

[Jesse Ruderman]

*** Bug 228453 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 274773 ***