Elmar Ludwig Reporter
	Description • 19 years ago

Traditional behaviour on Unix is to allow pasting a URL into the content area
to load a URL from the current X11 selection. This feature tends to confuse
new users (see the heated discussion in  bug 96972 for example) and conflicts
with autoscroll (which is also activated by middle click in the content area).
Autoscroll has been disabled by default on Unix because of this (bug 216899).

In Mozilla there is another way to load a URL from the X11 selection: middle
click paste on the proxy icon in the location bar. This allows quick paste of
URLs without the need for middlemouse.contentLoadURL and thus can be used even
if autoscroll is enabled. I would like to see this in Firefox as well.

Relevant discussion:

bug 85677 - middle click in content behaviour
bug 111337 - corresponding bug for Mozilla
bug 216899 - ContentLoadURL vs autoscroll

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3

	:Gavin Sharp [email: gavin@gavinsharp.com] Assignee
	Comment 1 • 19 years ago

Port of the Seamonkey patch. Is this wanted? I could see a situation where
people accidentlally middle click the URL bar and wonder what happened.

	Mike Connor [:mconnor]
	Comment 2 • 19 years ago

Comment on attachment 183694 [details] [diff] [review]
Patch

if middlemouse.paste isn't enabled, middle click shouldn't paste....

	Elmar Ludwig Reporter
	Comment 3 • 19 years ago

updated patch, check for middlemouse.paste before pasting

I'm not quite sure if this test should be in middleMousePaste() or here.

	Mike Connor [:mconnor]
	Comment 4 • 19 years ago

Comment on attachment 186948 [details] [diff] [review]
Patch v1.1

sorry about the latency here, slipped off my radar, this also fixes bug 302660.

	:Gavin Sharp [email: gavin@gavinsharp.com] Assignee
	Comment 5 • 19 years ago

Checking in browser.js;
/cvsroot/mozilla/browser/base/content/browser.js,v  <--  browser.js
new revision: 1.465; previous revision: 1.464
done
Checking in browser.xul;
/cvsroot/mozilla/browser/base/content/browser.xul,v  <--  browser.xul
new revision: 1.266; previous revision: 1.265
done