Middle-mouse paste should be pref-able, mouse wheel pastes on NT w/ mouse-wheel, some Windows users might not want that.

Clarification: the mouse wheel doesn't paste automatically, but it's trivially easy to go from mouse wheeling up to pasting into who knows where... And when I paste into something other than a text area the browser attempts to load whatever is in my clipboard as if it's a URL.

m15

*** Bug 25295 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

*** Bug 25295 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

I'll take this -- I don't think Chris will have time for it.

It would help if I clicked the reassign button. :-)

I have a fix for this. It's very easy -- just a couple of lines in navigator.js to check the pref, plus two lines in each of the platform default prefs files to set default values for the prefs. I called the prefs "middlemouse.paste" and "middlemouse.opennewwindow" and made them true by default on linux and mac (I'm told mouse scrolling doesn't work on mac and isn't expected to any time soon), false on windows. Nominating for beta because many Windows scroll-mouse users seem surprised by the middle mouse behavior (there are lots of dups of this bug if you trace down the dup tree), but Unix users are clamoring for it (see bug 7787, which has also been nominated for beta) and because the fix is available and safe. I'm hoping that both this and bug 7787 get marked PDT+ because that's the combination I'm testing, but I can split them up if need be.

PDT- feature

*** Bug 29623 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

The fix is in.

qa -> jrgm

filed an rfe for a gui for these prefs, bug 55704.

verified fixed. (Don't you love bugs that you never knew you had anymore).