i have the middle mouse button configured to open op a new tab (in the background) when clicking a link... now the problem is that when i use the middle mouse button and i click anywhere in the browser window (to close a tab e.g.), mozilla tries opening up a new page in the current tab, with the last text you selected in the window. e.g. i select the words 'blank to', then i deselect it, so that i dont have anything selected, i try to close a tab with the middle mouse button, and now the current tab tries to load www.blank to.com. btw i think mozilla should not open urls with spaces anyway, just give some error message. very irritating.. suse linux 8.0 here

yes.. isn't it annoying. You can work around it by adding this in user.js or prefs.js (mozilla should not be running at the time: user_pref("middlemouse.contentLoadURL", false); The tabs are obviously perceived as "content area" but this pref will prevent the feature of middle mouse clicks over content area to load URLs.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 107147 ***

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