Disable load URL from clipboard with middle click in firefox

Posted On Feb 27, 2008 at 3:53 am
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Firefox has a really annoying "feature" where if you middle click in the browser, it will attempt to load whatever is in your clipboard as a URL - most of the time throwing an error saying "not a valid URL" when you dont have the intention of actually loading a url when middle clicking. Fortunately, this is very easy to disable even though its not an option from within the preferences panel.

To enable/disable this feature, enter about:config into the URL bar and hit enter.

Do a search for middlemouse.contentLoadURL and set it to false. Simple as that!

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