29623 - A click of the wheel mouse invokes a unix-like behavior by warping to the URL or any text on the clipboard

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 24571

(Core :: DOM: UI Events & Focus Handling, defect, P3)

Description

[Armen]

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User-Agent: Mozilla/4.6 [en] (WinNT; I)
BuildID:    M13

If and when the wheel mouse is clicked under Windows the browser tries to visit 
whatever URL is pasted on the clipboard.  Even if it is not a URL but just text 
it pastes it into the location box and attempts to go there. I have learned that 
this is a normal behavior under Unix environments but this is not normal under 
Windows and shouldnt be this way by default.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. copy some text to the clipboard
2. click the wheel button on your wheel mouse (mine was an intellimouse)
3.

Actual Results:  Tries to visit whatever text is on the clipbaord

Expected Results:  Should have brought up the nifty arrows that the Intellipoint 
software loads in every othe program under Windows.

<shaver> ``browserLoadClipboardURL
<shaver> in navigator.xul:
<shaver>   <box id="appcontent" align="vertical" flex="100%"
<shaver>     onclick="if (event.button==2) 
browserLoadClipboardURL(event.target);"

seems that is the offending code and there should be an easy workaround for this

Comment 1

[Sebastian Späth]

Behaviour confirmed with Win95 build 03/05.
Is this a bug or intended? Giving this bug directly to Shaver per former 
comment.

Comment 2

[Sebastian Späth]

This issue is already dealt with in bug 24571

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 24571 ***

Comment 3

[John Morrison]

verified duplicate