514001 - MMB click into the page of a new empty tab creates the url http://x/ and executes

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Description

[Peter Möller]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de; rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090730 SUSE/3.5.2-2.1 Firefox/3.5.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de; rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090730 SUSE/3.5.2-2.1 Firefox/3.5.2

a sex site is automatically activated, after clicking with your middle mouse button (MMB) in to the empty pane of a new tab. This is just the most simple version. You can get the same result, if you mmb click into an "empty region" (no text/image/flash) of a random website.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open a new tab
2.MMB click into the empty pane
3. an (x) is generated in the url, which is converted to http://x/ and then the search function generates a link to a sex site

Actual Results:  
the mmb click forwards to a sex site

Expected Results:  
nothing, if  i MMB click an empty region

usually this is a normal bug. But since i can't figure out, whether there are security issue involved, i decide to level up to major until the circumstances are clear.

env: opensuse 11.1, kde 4.3
ext: firebug, fireftp, firegestures, adblock plus, downthemall

Comment 1

[Jason Spiro]

What text is on your clipboard?  To check, middle-mouse-button click into any TEXTAREA.

Comment 2

[Peter Möller]

Jason, perfect analysis! :-)

That's it. I'm not aware, whether this is a normal feature of MMB, but i would suppose now ;-) Anyway, its not a bug anymore :-)

Comment 3

[Peter Möller]

since this guy is still hanging around and a NO BUG, i will close it myself now

Comment 4

[[:Aleksej]]

Verified.

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