442440 - Middle click open random page

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 135884

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[cerebro.alexiel]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; fr; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008052912 Firefox/3.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; fr; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008052912 Firefox/3.0

If you middle click on a word (try with this page, it should works), firefox open in the current tab a (random ?) page. Often, there is a "URL is not valid and could not be loaded" but sometimes . If you try to Ctrl-click a word (it should be the same behavior, isn't it ?), a rectangle is drawn around the text. It does not sound normal but maybe... Tell me if I'm wrong

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Go to bugzilla.mozilla.org and do as if you wanted to post a new bug
2.In the page where you fill in the fields, try to middle click on words
3.
Actual Results:  
Actual results ? Actual .. real result ? In french actual means current so ... Never mind, Firefox open a page and it should not.

Expected Results:  
Always display "URLS is not valid..."

Could you display the "URL is not valid" message as "Do you want firefox to remember.." (non-aggressive) ?

Comment 1

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

In about:config try setting middlemouse.contentLoadURL to false.
http://kb.mozillazine.org/About:config

Comment 2

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

Where exactly do you middle-click, is it inside a text field?

Comment 3

[Elmar Ludwig]

If you are clicking outside of form controls, this is a duplicate of bug 135884.

Ctrl-click selects the current table cell, which explains the rectangle you see sometimes (when the text is inside a table cell).

Comment 5

[Marek Stępień [:marcoos, inactive]]

v.