Mozilla Firefox Finally Fixes An Awkward, 11 Year Old Linux Bug

[illwieckz]

Michael

many have found it to be incredibly awkward accidentally opening a new tab with some web-page based upon what's in your copy-paste clipboard.

It was worst than that: it replaced without any warning and immediately the current page by some web-page based upon what's in your copy-paste clipboard, leading to data loss when you were typing stuff in some form, or having heavy web app (gmail, facebook…) closed just because you tried to middle-click a link to open it as tab but missed the link and clicked slightly near it.

I expect the middle-click pasting on url bar (and waiting for confirmation to load it), not pasting in the whole window area and loading without confirmation… 11 years to fix that… Wow!

[CTown]

So that's how that happens...

[Cyber Killer]

Coming from Opera 12 (aka the Real Opera) I expected to open a url with pasting by middle click (I loved this function in Opera, as well as lots of other things Opera had), but this never worked outside Opera. I got no idea how anyone could be confused... Middle click on a link, opened the link, select text of url (and open a new tab) and middle click opens the url. Very good usability.

I miss Opera :-(.

[Nuc!eoN]

Thanks. Now please fix the bug that single clicking into the search field on firefox does not select the content

[eydee]

I use it in the terminal, but not really anywhere else.

Sounds counter intuitive. You let go of the keyboard, reach for the mouse, and click, instead of shift+insert?

[torsionbar28]

Chromium is all I use these days. After the Mozilla CEO was discriminated against, and then fired, I won't use Mozilla products again.

[Gusar]

After the Mozilla CEO was discriminated against, and then fired

You have that backwards. *He* was the one doing the discrimination. He backed a law that was later deemed unconstitutional and so repealed. Because it was discriminating.

[andrei_me]

Chromium is all I use these days. After the Mozilla CEO was discriminated against, and then fired, I won't use Mozilla products again.

And the recent Google scandal wouldn't apply here too? Maybe you should use Vivaldi as it is too young to had done any social justice error...

[zdzichu]

Actually, I was a heavy user of this feature back when I was using Firefox. It was really speeding up my workflow. This feature was especially important when I encountered webpage with non-clickable links – like text file or botched comments window. It was double-click to select an URL and middle-click to open it. Today, with right-click → navigate to URL it's less important.
I've argued for Chrome to implement this behaviour and Chrome did in neutered way – you have to middle-click on New Tab button. Much smaller click target, but still there if you need it.

[Uqbar]

Whaaat? An 11 yo bug got fixed?
And what about a 19 yo bug in Firefox dating back to the glorious Netscape days?
And it is affecting all opensource browsers, not just Firefox!

Go and see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=915