67839 - Clicking the middle mouse button reverts to the previous page/home page

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 57317

(Core Graveyard :: Viewer App, defect)

Description

[Christian Kohlschütter]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.2.17-21mdk i686; en-US; m18) Gecko/20010206
BuildID:    2001020609

The browser reverts to the previous, sometimes to the start page
when clicking the middle mouse button. Is this behaviour expected?


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
Open an URL, for example www.newsclub.de
Change the web address to, for example, about:blank.
Click on the middle mouse button (that normally should open
a selected link in another window). 


Actual Results:  The browser reverts to the previous, sometimes to the start page.
This is very irritating.



Expected Results:  Nothing should happen if you click over a non-hyperlinked area.

Comment 1

[R.K.Aa.]

dup of bug 57317 "Middle button on blank area opens clipboard contents as URL in
current window". This is  now fixed by adding a preference. You must add it
manually however. 

To add it:
Quit mozilla.
Open .mozilla/Default/something/prefs.js

Add this line to prefs.js
user_pref("middlemouse.contentLoadURL", false);



*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 57317 ***