228453 - Clicking with middle mouse button seems to start a google search

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 226747

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Philipp]

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

When clicking with the middle mouse button for the first time somewhere in a
page (not on a link), an icon appears and I am able to scroll the page with the
mouse. I think this is a normal behaviour. But now, when clicking with the
middle mouse button again, the browser loads a page in the current tab. At
first, I couldn't reproduce what page it loaded (it seemd to be one I haven't
been before), but then I found out that when selecting some words in the text of
the page before trying those middle-clicks, the browser starts a google search
with the selected word(s) and loads one of the result pages (not always the
first) into the current tab.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Select some text on the current page
2. Click the middle mouse, scroll a bit in the page, then click the middle mouse
again

Actual Results:  
The browser contacts google.com and loads one of the search results.

Expected Results:  
Nothing, I think ;)

I'm using SuSE Linux 9.0 with KDE.

Comment 1

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

welcome to the fun world of middlemouse behaviour on linux.  filter on 
middlemouse in about:config and see if something changed those prefs 
(like .contentLoadURL etc)

Comment 2

[Bob Firth]

By design middle click launches the URL that would be loaded if your paste 
buffer was entered in the Address bar (in the case of non-URL words it's the 
google search). As Mike says, there are prefs to control this behaviour, I 
can't remember them off hand, sorry.

Comment 3

[Philipp]

Thx.
Setting middlemouse.contentLoadURL to false seems to solve the problem :)

Comment 4

[Jesse Ruderman]

Dup of bug 226747.

Comment 5

[Jesse Ruderman]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 226747 ***