Firefox behavioral differences

http://lifehacker.com/5456366/make-new-tabs-open-at-far-right-in-
> firefox-36<http://lifehacker.com/5456366/make-new-tabs-open-at-far-right-in-%0Afirefox-36>
>

Yep, thanks.

Now that 2nd difference has been taken care of, anybody know about #1?

If I would understand #1 maybe I could find an answer.
?
> via middle click have firefox go to whatever url in the clipboard

Clipboard?

On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 12:48 PM, Sam
<email address hidden>wrote:

> If I would understand #1 maybe I could find an answer.
>

If you know it, you'll know it. :-) Alright, alright, I was too lazy to
search myself. well the good part is that people searching
answers.launchpad.net first would find the answer here next time.

Middle click your urls again in Firefox 2
http://ocaoimh.ie/middle-click-your-urls-again-in-firefox-2/

Posted by Donncha on September 7, 2007

One of the really useful features of Firefox in the past was the ability to
click the middle mouse button anywhere on a browser page and have the URL in
the clipboard load in that window. For some reason it stopped working some
time back and I don’t know why. Here’s how to enable it again if your
Firefox has stopped obeying your middle finger.

Open “about:config” in a new browser tab or window.
Search for “middlemouse” and find “middlemouse.contentLoadURL”. Set it to
true if it’s false.
If that preference isn’t there, create a new one by right clicking and
creating a new boolean value. Type “middlemouse.contentLoadURL” into the box
and press return.
A new value, set to true by default, will be created.
Now try copying a URL and middle-clicking it anywhere on this page. Try
http://ocaoimh.ie/ for good luck!

Thanks actionparsnip, that solved my question.

>Middle click your urls again

Just interested, but doesn't work here. (Tested 3.0.12 and 3.6)
What happens is that this round button occurs (as always) to scroll the page.
So I guess I need to disable this behaviour first.
Usually I open (hyper)links with middle mouse in new tabs.
But you mean (text)links right, otherwise I woudn't understand the sense of copying.

> doesn't work here. (Tested 3.0.12 and 3.6)

It always works like that, especially old versions. I just tried and it works for me, without restarting.

$ apt-cache policy firefox
firefox:
  Installed: 3.6.10+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu3
  Candidate: 3.6.10+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu3
  Version table:
 *** 3.6.10+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu3 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

> Usually I open (hyper)links with middle mouse in new tabs

Yes, that's another most important usage of middle click.

> otherwise I woudn't understand the sense of copying

Let's try it again, copy the following into gedit (or any other pure text editor)

,-----
| Now try copying a URL and middle-clicking it anywhere on this page. Try
| http://ocaoimh.ie/ for good luck!
`-----

*select/highlight* the url from gedit, and middle-click back here on the brim (or any white area) of this page...

good luck!

Thanks for the clarification. Still didn't work though, BUT as assummed I had to disable this autoscroll setting in preferences et voilà nice feature. I've never used autoscroll anyway so I'll keep the middle click feature. Btw. this works with any highlighted text not just URLs. Funny new web experience.
e.g. Wanadoo goes to http://www.orange.co.uk/
or middle-click leads to server not found.

I'd like to have an advanced feature where I can highlight e.g. an error message and it opens related answers. (Instead of copy&paste into a search engine)

> I had to disable this autoscroll setting in preferences et voilà nice feature. I've never used autoscroll anyway . . .

Glad that you overcame another bump that I didn't have.

That's a really a must-have feature to me. I hope more people know it so that we can make it default in Ubuntu -- it is default in Debian, BTW.

cheers