** Description changed: I restarted Firefox yesterday and my middle mouse button behaviour changed. I had previously changed middlemouse.contentLoadURL to true in order that a middle mouse paste would load the URL in the clipboard. When I looked, that had been changed to false. I changed it back to true, but this change did not persist past a restart of the browser. Searching the web for information about this found nothing related to middlemouse.contentLoadURL, and just a few recommendations to make settings in user.js instead. Irritating, but OK. But that doesn't work either. Eventually I found /usr/lib/firefox-9.0.1/extensions/[email protected]/defaults/preferences /ubuntu-mods.js pref("middlemouse.contentLoadURL", false); //setting to false disables pasting urls on to the page I do not understand why this is considered worth overriding in a system file. This was pointed out to me: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2004-October/000296.html This may have been less surprising to me if I had been experiencing it since 2004, however I did not experience it until the last upgrade of firefox: Start-Date: 2012-01-28 20:57:32 Install: xul-ext-ubufox (0.9.3-0ubuntu0.10.04.3), firefox-locale-en (9.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.10.04.2) Upgrade: xserver-xorg (7.5+5ubuntu1, 7.5+5ubuntu1.1), language-pack-en-base (10.04+20110204, 10.04+20110931), xserver-xorg-video-all (7.5+5ubuntu1, 7.5+5ubuntu1.1), libicu42 (4.2.1-3, 4.2.1-3ubuntu0.10.04.1), ubufox (0.9~rc2-0ubuntu2.1, 0.9.3-0ubuntu0.10.04.3), language-pack-gnome-en-base (10.04+20110204, 10.04+20110931), xutils (7.5+5ubuntu1, 7.5+5ubuntu1.1), firefox (3.6.24+build2+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.04.1, 9.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.10.04.2), xserver-xorg-input-all (7.5+5ubuntu1, 7.5+5ubuntu1.1), firefox-gnome-support (3.6.24+build2+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.04.1, 9.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.10.04.2), x11-common (7.5+5ubuntu1, 7.5+5ubuntu1.1), xorg (7.5+5ubuntu1, 7.5+5ubuntu1.1), firefox-branding (3.6.24+build2+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.04.1, 9.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.10.04.2), language-pack-en (10.04+20110204, 10.04+20110931), language-pack-gnome-en (10.04+20110930, 10.04+20110931) End-Date: 2012-01-28 20:58:04 My preference is obviously different to the person asking for this setting to be changed, so I am biased towards it not being done at all. But if it must be done then is it possible to find a less confusing way? I'm running 10.04. ii firefox 9.0.1+build1-0ubunt Safe and easy web browser from Mozilla - ii firefox-branding 9.0.1+build1-0ubunt Safe and easy web browser from Mozilla - transitional + ii firefox-branding 9.0.1+build1-0ubunt Safe and easy web browser from Mozilla - transitional ii firefox-gnome-suppo 9.0.1+build1-0ubunt Safe and easy web browser from Mozilla - GNOME support ii firefox-locale-en 9.0.1+build1-0ubunt English language pack for Firefox ii ubufox 0.9.3-0ubuntu0.10.0 transitional dummy package ii xul-ext-ubufox 0.9.3-0ubuntu0.10.0 Ubuntu-specific configuration defaults and apt support + + Oh, I thought I better add: it's possible this has always been the + behaviour in Ubuntu's firefox and I haven't noticed as it's one of the + first things I change. What may have changed is Firefox overriding + about:config / user.js with the settings from the extension.
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