I was a little slow there. You just want a way for the third action to be
disabled. I find it annoying more than anything because I use browsers on
many different systems and I some times get surprised by this action. Yes,
you are correct that it can violation a users privacy if one has highlighted
private text and accidently hits the middle mouse button on an unused portion
of the window. I just found and tested that if "middlemouse.contentLoadURL"
is set to false, then nothing happens.
Florian Weimer wrote:
On X11 systems, pressing the middle mouse button in a Window has three
functions in Firefox: On a hyperlink, the hyperlink is opened in a new
window/tab. On an input control, the X selection (= clipboard) is
pasted into the control. On some unused space of the window, the X
selection is entered into the location bar. It's easy to trigger the
third action accidentally when you click on the wrong part of the
window.
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