On 8/22/05, James Wilkinson <fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Jonathan Berry wrote: > > I recently noticed in the Windows version of Firefox, I can middle > > click on a tab and Firefox will close that tab. > > Go to about:config (you type that in the Location bar = Address bar), > and set middlemouse.contentLoadURL to false. > > (I've certainly got this working the way I want, and I *think* that was > the setting...) Bingo! That was it exactly. Now middle click to close works and I don't get middle clicks sending me to pseudo-random pages. > > I've also noticed that sometimes > > middle clicking on a page (not on a link) will take me to seemingly > > random pages. Some tests just now reveal that the page it goes to > > seems to have something to do with what word was highlighted, like the > > auto copy/paste with the middle button feature. > > This is the standard X select and paste mechanism: you can highlight > something with the left mouse button, and paste it elsewhere with the > centre button. Very useful once you've got the hang of it, although it's Middle click to "auto-paste" is a great feature of Linux. I use it all the time. > rather annoying when you want to paste over something in the address > bar: you highlight the old address, delete it -- and then realise you've > just highlighted the old address, so you've lost what you wanted to > paste! > > This, I suppose, is why "middle-click = load this URL" is useful... Yeah, it makes sense, but I don't like the way it masks the other features. I usually just hit Ctrl+T to bring up a new tab that has a blank address bar, though. So, it's not very useful to me, which I guess is why it is an option :). Too bad the myriad of about:config options aren't better documented or more readily available. Aren't preferences supposed to be in Preferences (or options in Options)? :) > James. Jonathan
