Closed Bug 258757 Opened 20 years ago Closed 20 years ago

option to turn off pasting URLs by middle mouse button

Categories

(Firefox :: Settings UI, enhancement)

x86
Linux
enhancement
Not set
normal

Tracking

()

RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 135884

People

(Reporter: jakub.suder, Assigned: bugzilla)

Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040823 Firefox/0.9.3 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040823 Firefox/0.9.3 I think it would be useful if there was an option to disable the function to paste URLs into browser using middle mouse button. It often happens to me that I try to click a link with middle mouse button to open that page in new tab, but instead I click few pixels away from the link; then instead of opening the right page in new tab, Firefox tries to open some non-existing page in the current tab. I don't use the function "open in current tab the page which URL is currently in clipper", and I use the function "open link in new tab" very often, so I'd like to turn off the former, because these situations like described above annoy me a bit ... Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. click middle mouse button somewhere on a web page (not on a link) Actual Results: Firefox tries to load a page which URL is equal to text which is currently copied into clipper. Expected Results: Some people may like this behaviour, but I'd like to be able to disable it - middle mouse button click would then work only on links, and if you click elsewhere - it wouldn't do anything at all.
Don't set OS to ALL unless you know it affects all systems. Pasting is defaulted to off on non-Linux systems. The option you want (Access from about:config) is middlemouse.paste Should this be duped to bug 171132?
OS: All → Linux
no, this is either INVALID or WONTFIX. This is just another convention on Linux that new users hate. I don't like it myself. the contentLoadURL pref would also need to be changed, iirc
Or better, bug 135884 or bug 85677 - that's exactly the same bug (or "feature"...). As for now, I'll try to turn it off in those hidden preferences. Although I generally believe that things that half of users like and the other half don't, should be put into preferences to let all users decide how they want it.
This is already reported. Please help us keep the Bugzilla database in order by finding the original bug and marking this a duplicate of that. Thanks.
Whiteboard: DUPEME
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 135884 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
sorry for bugspam, long-overdue mass reassign of ancient QA contact bugs, filter on "beltznerLovesGoats" to get rid of this mass change
QA Contact: mconnor → preferences
Whiteboard: DUPEME
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