497693 - Middle clicking in browser area directs Firefox to contents of clipboard

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 366945

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Yet Ding]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1b4) Gecko/20090423 Firefox/3.5b4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1b4) Gecko/20090423 Firefox/3.5b4

Middle clicking pastes text in Linux, and doing it in a Linux browser window (with focus on anything but a text field) makes Firefox navigate or search for the contents of the clipboard.

This is extremely disruptive to laptop browsing, as I must hold down the middle mouse button to scroll. If I press the middle mouse button and let it up too quickly, Firefox will navigate away from my current page.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Use Linux and highlight text to put it in the clipboard (e.g. "blah")
2. Middle click in a Firefox browser area
Actual Results:  
Firefox attempts to navigate to the contents of the clipboard, searching for the text or going to the URL (e.g. goes to http://blah.com)


Expected Results:  
Firefox behaves like previous versions, and does not navigate to the clipboard contents.

Comment 1

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

In Linux this preference is by default set to true. Please read http://kb.mozillazine.org/Middlemouse.contentLoadURL

Comment 2

[Micah Gersten]

Is this a dupe of bug 366945?