https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=355697 User ajorgensen@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=355697#c2 --- Comment #2 from Andrew Jorgensen 2008-01-23 12:22:27 MST --- If the 'something' has spaces in it then the url handler used to send it to google looking for an "I'm feeling lucky" link. You're correct that that bug has been fixed. Sending to google's not the point, though, the point is that the contentLoadURL behavior is something the average user doesn't know about and will only be surprised and annoyed by in the cases where she misses and clicks somewhere that's not a link, somewhere that looks like a link, for instance. I fairly often found firefox going to pages I'd been at previously (because I happened to have the URL in my paste buffer) and what not. It's extremely annoying and one of the things that made it hard for me to move to openSUSE. To put it another way, it's a unix-only (no such feature on windows) hacker-only (newbies don't know that middle-click pastes) kind of feature. Those kinds of features are fine to have but should not be the default, particularly if they can cause confusing and erratic behavior. I've been using Linux for at least 8 years. I'm no newbie but this "feature" has been biting me ever since I went back to openSUSE until I figured out it could be disabled this week. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=355697 User ajorgensen@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=355697#c4 --- Comment #4 from Andrew Jorgensen 2008-01-23 16:13:06 MST --- The way to decide something like this is to NOT look at what do I do but what would a new user expect it to do. This is a hidden feature that can cause unexplained erratic behavior in response to user error. We could also say that it's an accessibility problem as persons with less-steady hands who know that middle-click opens a link in a new tab will certainly have bad results. It's good that it's a configurable option because changing the default will not prevent power users like yourself from enjoying it's benefit. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=355697 User jpr@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=355697#c5 --- Comment #5 from JP Rosevear 2008-04-12 03:01:24 MST --- Upstream this is covered by https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=135884 -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=355697 User jpr@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=355697#c7 --- Comment #7 from JP Rosevear 2008-04-14 06:07:46 MST --- Checked and Fedora does not flip the default. What's new in 11.0 with FF 3.0 is that text is checked for a valid url (not by dns lookup, but just by analyzing if it meets the url spec) and if its not valid it pops up a dialog. As noted above, the I'm feeling lucky piece is also fixed. I think as well that the average user may not meet this as often as might be thought because middle click to open a URL is itself not available on windows nor is it terribly discover. Clearly upstream took a number of changes to improve the situation, but I'm reluctant to change an upstream default that is relatively controversia. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=355697 User ajorgensen@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=355697#c9 --- Comment #9 from Andrew Jorgensen 2008-04-16 22:41:42 MST --- I understand the reluctance but I still want to reiterate (even if just for the record): This is a hidden feature, unknown to almost all users, which behaves in an unexpected way without any feedback to clue the user as to what happened. Ubuntu at least (maybe Debian?) turned off this feature long ago and it doesn't / can't exist on windows so "user testing" has already been done quite broadly. I don't see this as disabling a feature so much as fixing a usability bug. The various upstream fixes may minimize the pain. Thank you for taking it seriously and discussing it though, I really do appreciate that. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.