306857 - Middle mouse button behaviour is different in Windows and Linux

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Michael Stather]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050715 Firefox/1.0.6 SUSE/1.0.6-4.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050715 Firefox/1.0.6 SUSE/1.0.6-4.1

Under Windows, when I click on webpage with the middle mouse button (not on a
link) I´m able to scroll by moving the mouse up and down. I like this behaviour
very much, but it doesn´t work under (SuSE) Linux. When I click under Linux I
get a message that "the URL may be invalid"

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[james.bugzilla]

(In reply to comment #0)
 
The is not really a bug but a feature for some people.

Type about:config in location (address) bar and filter for
middlemouse.contentLoadURL and set the Value to false

middlemouse.contentLoadURL
Determines how to handle middle-clicks in the content area.
True (default in Linux): Go to whatever address is currently in the clipboard
False (default in all but Linux): Handle middle-clicks normally.

http://kb.mozillazine.org/About:config_entries#Middlemouse..2A

Comment 2

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 282634 ***

Comment 3

[Michael Stather]

If I set it to false behaviour is still different from Windows.I can´t scroll by
moving the mouse cursor up or down, the middle button just does nothing.

Comment 4

[james.bugzilla]

(In reply to comment #3)
> If I set it to false behaviour is still different from Windows.I can´t scroll by
> moving the mouse cursor up or down, the middle button just does nothing.

Autoscrolling?

In Firefox: go to

Edit->Preferences->Adavanced->Browsing-> check "Use autoscrolling" box.

http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/options#advanced


...Now why was this bug changed back to UNCONFIRMED without saying the reason?

Comment 5

[Adam Guthrie]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 282634 ***

Comment 8

[Jesse Ruderman]

Bug 282634 covers multiple issues so it does not make sense for this bug to be marked as a duplicate of it.