499104 - invalid url load triggered by middleclick should be ignored

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 414345

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[scientus]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.6) Gecko/2009032712 Firefox/3.0.8
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1pre) Gecko/20090617 Shiretoko/3.5pre

browser.tabs.opentabfor.middleclick;true

is default on Linux. when middleclicking and something is selected you get an annoying "this url is not valid" alert box. When someone enters an invalid url into the address box they dont even get this because ot the auto-google for bad urls. This should be changed where if the url is not valid the user should not be bothered, as spare clicks are common.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.set browser.tabs.opentabfor.middleclick;true (default linux)
2.select something that is not a url
3.middle click somewhere

Actual Results:  
4. annoying alert box

Expected Results:  
5. nothing

Comment 1

[Dão Gottwald [:dao]]

The pref for this is middlemouse.contentLoadURL, not browser.tabs.opentabfor.middleclick.