Strange middle mouse button behavior

[Rich.Carpenter]

I'm used to using the middle mouse button and pointing stick on my Thinkpad to scroll in web browsers. I've only recently installed Mint 9 KDE, and when browsing in Firefox, when I click the middle mouse button, the browser tries to navigate to http://www.rich.carpenter. I have no idea why it would be designed to do this and I can't find a setting with which to change it. Any ideas?

EDIT: It seems that after further observation, the middle mouse button acts as a BACK button, though when used after first opening the browser, it does try to go to my name as a URL.

[richyrich]

Middle-click = paste . . . .

[Rich.Carpenter]

Is there someplace I can change the middle-click behavior? I checked mouse properties and didn't see it there.

[freddo1965]

Is there someplace I can change the middle-click behavior? I checked mouse properties and didn't see it there.

Try this, it worked for me,

1. open Firefox
2. in address bar type: about:config
3. locate line: middlemouse.contentLoadURL
4. double click the line to change from true to false

freddo

[randomizer]

Firefox in Linux (and only in Linux) has a strange default value for that property. I can't imagine why anyone would want to try and navigate to whatever text is in their clipboard.

[Rich.Carpenter]

Thanks. That did the trick. Could I trouble you for the secret to changing that behavior throughout Mint? I'd like to use the middle mouse button to scroll in my code windows as well.

[randomizer]

I'd imagine you'd need to mess with Xorg settings because the middle-mouse copy/paste (the primary clipboard I believe it's called) is a function of X.