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One of the most aggravating things for Linux users with heavy browsing-fingers sitting atop their clickable mouse wheels is to be browsing a page and suddenly have something from the clipboard loaded and searched for, as though they’d asked for it purposefully. This could be a useful feature for those who really make use of it, but I’m not one of them, and neither are my guests. This is an enormously helpful feature about Linux, but sometimes browsing with Firefox is made more difficult because of it.

So, here’s the solution.

Type in about:config in the address bar, then search for middlemouse.contentLoadURL and double-click it to set that value to false. The change will take place immediately. Happy browsing!

One of the most aggravating things for Linux users with heavy browsing-fingers sitting atop their clickable mouse wheels is to be browsing a page and suddenly have something from the clipboard loaded and searched for, as though they’d asked for it purposefully. This could be a useful feature for those who really make use of it, but I’m not one of them, and neither are my guests. This is an enormously helpful feature about Linux, but sometimes browsing with Firefox is made more difficult because of it.

So, here’s the solution.

Type in about:config in the address bar, then search for middlemouse.contentLoadURL and double-click it to set that value to false. The change will take place immediately. Happy browsing!