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and subject line iceweasel has been superseded by firefox-esr
has caused the Debian Bug report #406793,
regarding iceweasel: middle-click behavior makes no sense
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Package: iceweasel
Version: 2.0.0.1+dfsg-1
Severity: normal
the middle-click behavior in firefox is mind-boggling...even for those
who fully understand the unix middle-click.
first of all, it does makes sense that middle-clicking in a form pastes
the clipboard contents into that form. it also makes sense that
middle-clicking on a link opens that link in a new tab.
however, it makes absolutely no sense that middle-clicking in arbitrary
space on a page attempts to load a url based on the text in the clipboard.
oftentimes i am trying to middle-click on a link, but miss slightly, and
am taken to a 404 not found because the clipboard text is not a url. i
hadn't meant to use the clipboard text to take me anywhere, but inadvertently,
i was.
i really think that middle-clicking within a page should not attempt to
parse the clipboard text as a url. instead, that click should just be
ignored. let the user middle-click in the address bar, then press "go"
to use clipboard text as a url. that makes sense.
this is firefox upstream bug #366945
(https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=366945)
thank you for your consideration.
mike
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (600, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (400, 'stable'), (1,
'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-3-686
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages iceweasel depends on:
ii debianutils 2.17 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii fontconfig 2.4.1-2 generic font configuration library
ii libatk1.0-0 1.12.4-1 The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-8 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libcairo2 1.2.4-4 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii libfontconfig1 2.4.1-2 generic font configuration library
ii libfreetype6 2.2.1-5 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libgcc1 1:4.1.1-19 GCC support library
ii libglib2.0-0 2.12.4-2 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.8.20-3 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii libjpeg62 6b-13 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG
ii libmyspell3c2 1:3.1-18 MySpell spellchecking library
ii libpango1.0-0 1.14.8-4 Layout and rendering of internatio
ii libpng12-0 1.2.15~beta5-1 PNG library - runtime
ii libstdc++6 4.1.1-19 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libx11-6 2:1.0.3-4 X11 client-side library
ii libxft2 2.1.8.2-8 FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii libxinerama1 1:1.0.1-4.1 X11 Xinerama extension library
ii libxp6 1:1.0.0.xsf1-1 X Printing Extension (Xprint) clie
ii libxrender1 1:0.9.1-3 X Rendering Extension client libra
ii libxt6 1:1.0.2-2 X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii psmisc 22.3-1 Utilities that use the proc filesy
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-13 compression library - runtime
Versions of packages iceweasel recommends:
ii myspell-en-us [myspell-dic 1:2.0.4~rc1-3 English_american dictionary for my
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Version: 115.12.0esr-1+rm
src:iceweasel has been superseded by src:firefox-esr in version
45.0esr-1 in March 2016. Transitional packages to ease upgrades were
provided in the wheezy, jessie, stretch and buster releases. The
transitional packages have been removed finally before the bullseye
release in August 2021.
After regular security support for buster ended in August 2022 and LTS
support ended in June 2024, I'm closing the remaining bug reports now.
Andreas
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