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? -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners." -Ernst Jan Plugge
* Ken Schneider
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.
<Middle-Click> is programable on FireFox. There is a help file included with the FireFox distro tied to <F1>. Search for mouse. -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org HOG # US1244711 Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery
On Sunday 19 June 2005 08:45 am, 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?
Yes I have seen this. Usually when trying to copy some text on the page. Just tried it on a blank section of the foxnews page.... Each time I got a dialog saying: "The URL is not valid and cannot be loaded" Must be some kind of shortcut.
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
On Sun, 2005-06-19 at 09:31 -0400, Adalberto Castelo wrote:
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 Thanks. That was what was happening. Did the modification and no more false middle click.
-- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners." -Ernst Jan Plugge
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