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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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http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=966627&postcount=3

In about:config - set middlemouse.contentLoadURL to false.

@corey, @therefromhere: done.

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    You should copy the answer here in case the link ever rots for whatever reason (thread expires, forums go down, etc).
    – Corey
    May 25, 2010 at 17:49
  • I'll mark this accepted since it provided the right info - if someone edits in my answer into this I'll delete my own.
    – therefromhere
    May 26, 2010 at 14:21
  • Note that even if you disable that, you can still get the useful behaviour of opening what is in the clipboard: Just middle-click on the favicon (left of the URL bar); this will still work.
    – sleske
    Jun 9, 2010 at 10:55

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