Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2441 mails)

[Adalberto Castelo <castelo@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sunday 19 June 2005 08:45, Ken Schneider wrote:
> By accident I middle clicked on a web page in an area without any link
> and I ended up going to a page at another site. The site can vary but I
> don't understand why clicking on any area of a webpage that is not a
> link would take me any where.
> Anyone else experiencing this?

Yeah, what happens is that when you middle-click on firefox, if it's not over 
a link, it pastes whatever the system has in the clipboard to the URL input 
field. As you know, in linux, in general, things end up in the clipboard 
whenever you select any text with your mouse (which is pretty handy, imo).

But this particular feature can be a little annoying at times, for example 
when you're scrolling down a page with the mouse wheel, and it clicks, 
throwing you out of the page. It happens to be the default behavior in linux.

To change this, type "about:config" at the url input field, and look for the 
prop "middlemouse.contentLoadURL"; change it to false. That should do it.

Cheers,
Adalberto