229093 - pref to prevent middle-click paste in time interval after middle-mouse scroll

Status: NEW

(Core :: DOM: UI Events & Focus Handling, enhancement)

Description

[Roman Karp]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (roka-net; Nintendo Gameboy; 8-bit)
Build Identifier: 

While scrolling with the mouse wheel sometimes the middle mouse button is
accidentally clicked, opening unwanted the url in the clipboard.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. copy an URI into clipboard
2. read slashdot, and while scrolling accidentally press the middle mouse button
3. say "aww, man not again!"



Expected Results:  
An option:
[x] execute middle mouse button action only if scroll wheel inactive for [1] seconds
would solve the problem.

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

I don't know which OS you use but it's a feature on linux and I assume that you
use Linux

-> invalid

Comment 2

[HJ]

Why on earth do you resolve this enhancement request as invalid? He has a very
good point you know. I wonder *if* you use a mouse wheel yourself, and never ran
into this problem...

Comment 3

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

Maybe if it had an accurate summary it wouldn't have been resolved invalid.

Comment 4

[HJ]

Thanks David. Confirming bug. Matti, no hard feelings ;)

Comment 5

[R.K.Aa.]

Unix mouse-pasting wasn't designed with scrollwheels in mind, and Mozilla in
addition implement several different actions at once on a middle click.
I had to disable the "url-loading" feature on middle-clicks in order to use the
tab-browsing efficiently, by adding this line to prefs.js:

user_pref("middlemouse.contentLoadURL", false);

Comment 6

[Gonz Hauser]

This is the most annoying bug in firefox on linux with a
three button mouse and using the middle mouse button for scrolling.
I recommend setting "middlemouse.contentLoadURL" to "false"
by default. Who is it using anyway?