How do I stop Firefox on Ubuntu from trying to load whatever is in my clipboard when I middle-click

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Published on 2010-05-25T17:20:59Z Indexed on 2010/05/25 17:33 UTC
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In Firefox on Ubuntu, if I middle-click anywhere on a page that's not a link, it seems to treat whatever text is in the clipboard as a URL and tries to load it.

This is annoying, since if I either accidentally click the middle button or (more often) miss a link when trying to middle-click it, I'll either go to whatever URL is in my clipboard or get an alert saying:

The URL is invalid and cannot be loaded

Is there any way of either:

a) Disabling this functionality so that middle-click on a non-link does nothing (maybe an about:config setting?,

or

b) Making the functionality more intelligent, so that it will only try and open text if it looks like a URL (this seems like a job for a plugin).

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