311271 - middle click in scrollbar also loads URL from clipboard

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 301873

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Ian Collier]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20051004 SeaMonkey/1.1a
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20051004 SeaMonkey/1.1a

In Mozilla >= 1.7.10 with JavaScript disabled, middle-clicking to position the
scrollbar also results in a URL being loaded from the clipboard.  This did not
happen in <=1.7.8.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start Mozilla with a fresh profile.
2. Edit preferences and disable JavaScript for Navigator.
3. Browse to a web page with a scrollbar.
4. Select some text.
5. Press the middle button in the scrollbar.

Actual Results:  
If the selected text represents a URL, the contents of the document window are
replaced with the page loaded from the URL.  Otherwise, Mozilla reports an error
that the URL could not be loaded.

Expected Results:  
Clicking in the scrollbar should only scroll the document and not load a new
document.

Tested on 1.7.10 and 1.9a1 on Linux and 1.7.12 on Solaris.  Correct behaviour
has been observed in 1.7.8 on Solaris and 1.7.6 on Linux.  Correct behaviour is
also observed whenever JavaScript is enabled within the browser.

Comment 1

[Adam Guthrie]

See Firefox bug 301873.

Comment 2

[Andrew Schultz]

it's a core bug

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 301873 ***