Hi,

I just noticed something, both 0.9.7 and the latest
nightly. Clicking the middle mouse button *not*
on a hyperlink, but simply somewhere in a page, causes
na attempt to open an url with the current X clipboard
selection. Say, the last X selection you did was in
an xterm (kterm in my case), you selected the 
"network.pdf" string. Afterwards, in Mozilla, you
try to middle-button-click a hyperlink, in order to
open it in a new window, but you miss the the hyperlink
and middle-button-click somewhere next to it. Then
you get a message  "www.network.pdf could not be
found. Please check the name and try again"  :))  That's
how I discovered it.

Seems like a feature, but can be confusing for someone
that is not aware of it. If the clipboard content is big
-- e.g. the above paragraph -- mozilla would still try to
open an url with this name, and then the error message is
very confusing. It basically quotes the whole text, followed
by the "Please check the name and try again" thing,
which the user will most likely miss.  Worse, if the
selection is accidentally a valid url, or can be
expanded to one with ".com" at the end, one goes to
a some seemingly random page and has no clue how
he/she got there.

Just some thoughts.

Regards,
Minko Markov

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