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sotha_sil
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 Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2005 4:00 am Post subject: [solved] firefox randomly jumps to spurious url |
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I'm running firefox through privoxy (running as a filtering proxy). Every once in a while, firefox will suddenly attempt to load a nonexistant URL. Just now it tried to jump to "http://y/". Has anyone else ever had this happen? I'm not sure if privoxy is at fault or firefox. javascript and java are always turned off in firefox (I use konqurer when I need that kind of browsing).
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Dlareh
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| Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2005 4:10 am Post subject: |
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That happens when you middle click and have something in your clipboard or primary selection.
Be careful when middle clicking in firefox; it will either try to parse the clipboard contents as a URL or do a Google "I'm feeling lucky" search which takes you to the first google result of searching for your clipboard contents.
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sotha_sil
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| Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2005 9:55 pm Post subject: |
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| Dlareh wrote: | That happens when you middle click and have something in your clipboard or primary selection.
Be careful when middle clicking in firefox; it will either try to parse the clipboard contents as a URL or do a Google "I'm feeling lucky" search which takes you to the first google result of searching for your clipboard contents. |
OMG! That was it. I just tested it by highlighting single characters and middle-clicking. Thanks  |
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