308525 - middle click on tab doesn't close but opens another page

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 171132

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[Roan Kattouw]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050908 Firefox/1.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050908 Firefox/1.4

When I middle-click a tab in an attempt to close it (which it should), I get
some strange behaviour instead. Ctrl+W still closes tabs OK, but this acts so
strange it can't be intended.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open a tab
2. Load a web page in it (optional)
3. Middle-click the tab

Actual Results:  
Firefox loaded another web page in the tab, some of which I have never visited
before in my life (like www.insects.org). Sometimes it even gives an error
saying the URL doesn't exist.

Expected Results:  
Close the tab.

Remarkably, the new web page is not opened in the tab I middle-clicked, but in
the  currently selected tab.

Comment 1

[Nick Thomas [:nthomas] (UTC+12)]

This is a duplicate of bug 171132. Behaviour is by-design, following the
standard linux paste response to middle-click.

Comment 2

[Ryan Flint [:rflint] (ping via IRC for reviews)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 171132 ***

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 171132 ***