Never seen anything like this before!

[Tommaso]

Maybe this is normal and i have just never noticed it before, or i have something wierd installed on my computer even though i connected this computer to the net only 3 days ago.

if i am at any page (firefox 1.0.7), i can click the scroll button on my mouse i am forwarded to a random internet site. here are a three of the sites; they seem to cycle in periods of about 1 minute. I have never even seen these sights before.

http://www.driverheaven.net/showthread.php?t=89788
http://mathforum.org/
http://www.f-secure.com/

My only reaction to this so far is WTF? Has anyone ever seen anything like this before?

[Stefann]

Maybe this is normal and i have just never noticed it before, or i have something wierd installed on my computer even though i connected this computer to the net only 3 days ago.

if i am at any page (firefox 1.0.7), i can click the scroll button on my mouse i am forwarded to a random internet site. here are a three of the sites; they seem to cycle in periods of about 1 minute. I have never even seen these sights before.

http://www.driverheaven.net/showthread.php?t=89788
http://mathforum.org/
http://www.f-secure.com/

My only reaction to this so far is WTF? Has anyone ever seen anything like this before?

Upgrade to FF 1.5???

[SwimminSasquatch]

I have noticed this as well.

Clicking the middle button on the tab in FF in Windows will close the tab.

Doing the same in Linux will bring up a random website.

I think it has to do with whats in the page you are clicking.

I could be wildly off, but when I middle cliked here in the forum I was directed to the Fedora Home page.

[Game master pro]

What extensions do you have installed? i had a problem like that, and it was an extension that pressing middle button took you to a relevent site about the word you clicked on

[a thing]

Go to about:config and set middlemouse.contentLoadURL to false.

[Tommaso]

Thanks for the help. It seems that i have fixed the problem with your suggestions. Too bad, i was waiting to see what random site it would lead me to next .

[Krendoshazin]

Middle mouse clicking is very usefull, you highlight a link in irssi or any terminal ( irssi being on the terminal ), and then use middle click in firefox to have it go to the link. This is not a bug.
Also further on this, because I use a command line mp3 player, I can highlight the song I'm playing, middle click it into firefox and it brings up the lyrics for me.

There are other usefull things like klipper which allows you to copy content to the clipboard from anywhere, and also uses "keys" in order to tell what the content is, you can set it so that if it's a link, a menu pops up where your mouse is and allows you to select "open with firefox".