409049 - Middleclick on nothing is buggy

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[kripkenstein]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9b2) Gecko/2007121016 Firefox/3.0b2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9b2) Gecko/2007121016 Firefox/3.0b2

A middleclick (which should open a link in a new tab) in Firefox 3.0 beta 2, when done on nothing, actually does something. It shouldn't do anything when not done on a link, but it does.

First it gave popup errors about an invalid URL. Now, it loads a page instead of the current page. This new page is both a complete surprise - no link was clicked! - and replaces the page, when middleclick should open a new tab. The site it goes to is some 'spa' site - very weird, I have no idea why.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Middle-click on an empty area. NOT on a link.
Actual Results:  
See that you get an error or jump to a strange page.

Expected Results:  
Nothing should happen, since the middleclick was not on a link.

Comment 1

[Kevin Brosnan]

Middle click is a paste command on linux. Use about:config to set middlemouse.paste to false to disable the behavior you are seeing.

Comment 2

[kripkenstein]

I guess in the Firefox on Ubuntu they change it so this doesn't happen, so it surprised me on the Firefox 3.0 directly from Mozilla.

Sorry for wasting your time.