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firefox package

Firefox forgets middlemouse.contentLoadURL on every restart

Bug #784542 reported by Florian Sievers
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firefox (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: firefox

When setting middlemouse.contentLoadURL to true in the about:config settings, this setting will get lost, when I restart Firefox. This only happens to this setting, other settings won't get lost. The problem first appeared on Tuesday, May 17th 2011 after the Firefox update on this day.

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Florian Sievers (florian-sievers) wrote :

I forgot to specify the package version and distr. Its firefox 4.0.1+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2 on 11.04 as you can see from the package version.

Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)
Changed in firefox (Ubuntu):
status: New → Opinion
status: Opinion → Invalid
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sasha (sashalav) wrote :

This is not duplicate of #548866 as it happens on every firefox restart not only on upgrade as the other bug. Disabling "Ubuntu firefox modifications" extension will stop resetting middlemouse.contentLoadURL value, but it also removes this functionality (with extension disabled, the value is left set to "true" between restarts, but middle clicking does not load URL from clipboard).

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Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson) wrote :

Yes, it is the same bug. The reason you only started seeing it with the last update is because we deliberately regressed the fix for bug 548866

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