The Ubuntu add-on overrides user setting of middlemouse.contentLoadURL

[Martin Stjernholm]

The config setting middlemouse.contentLoadURL is reset to false at each browser restart. If the user manually sets it to true, the user preference only has effect until the next restart. Disabling the Ubuntu Firefox Modifications add-on makes the problem disappear.

This is a regression in Natty - in previous versions the user setting wasn't compromised this way.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=660447 is an upstream report of the same bug, but I'm now filing it here since the culprit seems to be this package.

ubufox is 0.9.1-0ubuntu0.11.04.1, firefox is 5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2.

[Scott Garman (sgarman)]

The ubuntu-mods.js file from xul-ext-ubufox resets middlemouse.contentLoadURL to 'false' when Firefox starts with this extension enabled.

The attached patch resolves the problem for me.

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