Why can’t this be a default? Middle mouse clicking a url to open a url in the copy buffer is one of those “must-have” features of Mozilla that I always miss when I use IE. Why isn’t it turned on by default?
These instructions tell you how to enable it.
Set middlemouse.contentLoadURL to true in about:config.
Look what I found today!
2 Comments
oojee (1 comments.) on September 13, 2005 at 2:22 pm.
this happens to be one of my favorite features of firefox
Pete on September 2, 2009 at 11:30 pm.
AAhh I love finding old blog posts that solve my problems!
I’ve been trying to turn this off in the new firefox as its now on by default, its a nightmare! If I middle click the tab bar to reopen a tab, it reopens then redirects to whatever was in my paste buffer. Useful feature if you’re used to it, pain otherwise. Also annoying on my netbook, where I sometimes middle click instead of double finger scrolling. Cheers.