How to stop middle button in page from trying to open whatever is in my clipboard in Firefox on Ubun
- by therefromhere
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).
