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uberamd

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Registered: 2008-10-09

Posts: 4

Middle Click Redirecting?

I just got Arch setup on my work desktop yesterday (love it btw), however I am experiencing a strange issue. When I middle-click in Gran Paradiso, it redirects me to the University of Phoenix site (http://www.412learn.com/?d=studentorgs.com&referrer= which bounces me).

Here is an example:
- I visit any page (ie: archlinux.org)
- I middle click my scroll wheel (for no reason, doing it just because)
- I instantly get brought to: http://www.412learn.com/?d=studentorgs.com&referrer=
- That brings me to: http://aptm.phoenix.edu/?pvp_campaign=1 … iaRedirect
- I get flustered

What is going on? This doesn't seem like normal behavior, and outside of the usual software I have installed nothing. I have Gran Paradiso from the arch repo, and am using KDE4.

Anyone else ever experienced this?

Update: Doing it again brought me to: http://www.yeah.com/

Im lost here guys, and 99% of the time I can find a solution to issues myself.

lucke

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From: Poland

Registered: 2004-11-30

Posts: 4,018

Re: Middle Click Redirecting?

Middle-clicking outside of any link inputs whatever you have in your clipboard into the location field.

Last edited by lucke (2008-10-10 16:22:22)

brebs

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Registered: 2007-04-03

Posts: 3,742

Re: Middle Click Redirecting?

In about:config set:

middlemouse.contentLoadURL = false

To disable Firefox's annoying behaviour

uberamd

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Registered: 2008-10-09

Posts: 4

Re: Middle Click Redirecting?

Stupid me, I had the word "studentorgs" on the clipboard. What is strange through is that I use google search, and when I type that in I don't get the URL it was taking me to.

Any idea how it decided to take me to that page based on just the word studentorgs? Which field is it submitting that word to?

pauldonnelly

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Registered: 2006-06-19

Posts: 776

Re: Middle Click Redirecting?

Any idea how it decided to take me to that page based on just the word studentorgs? Which field is it submitting that word to?

It just tacked on www.....com to the word, and that site redirects you to the 412 thing, which redirects to University of Phoenix.

Gullible Jones

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Registered: 2004-12-29

Posts: 4,863

Re: Middle Click Redirecting?

I always disable middle-click link loading first thing after I get my desktop set up... It's not just annoying, it's a downright dangerous "feature" - a wrong click could redirect to a hostile website, or one with illegal content.

dav7

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From: Australia

Registered: 2008-02-08

Posts: 674

Re: Middle Click Redirecting?

...but on the other hand, there are users that swear by it.

Like myself. I especially use middle-click in forum situations like Arch's - just browse to the "new posts" page, and middle-click everything that looks interesting, closing each tab as I'm done. Then I slowly plough my way through it, and when I feel like doing it again I just hit F5 to refresh the new posts page that I didn't close.

-dav7

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Gullible Jones

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Registered: 2004-12-29

Posts: 4,863

Re: Middle Click Redirecting?

That's different... Middle-clicking on links to load them in another tab is something I do all the time. What I don't do is middle-click after selecting text to attempt to load that text as a URL.