316854 - When scrolling with middle button, and then hitting middlebutton again, paste URL happens

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 216899

(Firefox :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Emanuel Greisen]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051117 Firefox/1.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051117 Firefox/1.5

When scrolling with middle button (3. mouse button), and then hitting the middle button again, paste URL happens. This might be a design feature, but, its very annoying that you use one button to starte the "pan"-like scroll, and then you _must_ use left mouseclick to disable (otherwise you do a paste of URL, which is most likely not a URL, just what ever you marked last in X).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to a page that has reason to scroll
2. Mark some text with the mouse
3. Unmark the text
4. Click with the 3. mouse button (middle button), this brings up the little 4-arrow scroll-image, and you can move the mouse to scroll the page both verticaly and horizonticaly.
5. Press the 3. mouse button again (to get out of scroll mode) this will get you out, but you will also paste the text in your X-clipboard as an URL.

Actual Results:  
You will most likely go to a page that does not exist (most of the things I mark with the mouse is not valid URLs :-)

Expected Results:  
Only snap out of scroll-mode.

Comment 1

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20051117 Firefox/1.6a1 ID:2005111705

WFM. Firefox has a middlemouse.paste pref, but I don't know of a autocopy pref. :?
Does it also happen in the safemode?
http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/faq#troubleshooting

Comment 2

[Elmar Ludwig]

Ria: You won't see this on Windows, middlemouse.contentLoadURL is off there.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 216899 ***

Comment 3

[james.bugzilla]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20051117
> Firefox/1.6a1 ID:2005111705
> 
> WFM. Firefox has a middlemouse.paste pref, but I don't know of a autocopy pref.

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

On Linux middlemouse.contentLoadURL is set as True which is why the bug reporter is seeing the behaviour he is getting with middle-click.
 
Setting middlemouse.contentLoadURL to false is one of the first things I do with each nightly I set up on Linux as I would much rather close tabs than paste clipboard into tab.