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  1. Bug #548866
  2. Comment #18

Comment 18 for bug 548866

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Migrus (migrus123) wrote : Re: forgets middlemouse.contentLoadURL on upgrade

The description/title of this only speaks of this happening on update. I am getting this on every restart of the browser (as described in Bug #784542, which was set as a duplicate of this). Perhaps the title of this report should be changed to say restart?

I think from comment 17 that this is known to be on restart and not on upgrade. But to make sure there is no misunderstanding, here are the steps I take to reproduce this:

1. Start firefox, enter about:config, set middlemouse.contentLoadURL to true
2. middlemouse-paste a URL to a window, it loads the URL ()
3. Stop firefox, check the 'prefs.js' file:
 $ grep middle prefs.js
 user_pref("middlemouse.contentLoadURL", true);
4. Start firefox, the setting is gone from the about:config and the
   'prefs.js' file:
 $ grep middle prefs.js
 $
5. middlemouse-paste a URL to a window, it does nothing.

I can get this working by disabling the "Ubuntu Firefox Modifications" add-on.

Not sure why that did not work for the reporter of Bug #784542. Possibly that some other setting is in conflict? I normally disable:
browser.tabs.opentabfor.middleclick
middlemouse.openNewWindow