Comment 2 for bug 514828

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. I have tested this with Firefox 3.7 on Ubuntu Karmic and seem to have gotten the same results.

When the content of a site is editable, then middle-click causes anything copied to be pasted into the middle of the text for the link. Right-clicking the link gives the option to open in a new tab (which does work), so Firefox does recognize that it is a link. The behavior is the same in Opera.

With Chrome, no text is pasted anywhere on the page when a middle-click is used. However, I was unable to get the link to open in a new tab after a middle-click with Chrome while the content was editable (but it did work when it was not editable).

I am marking this report "Confirmed," however more research needs to be done in regards to the exact cause of this behavior (and whether or not anything can really be done about it).