I use a lot of plain text urls and find it annoying to have to go to firefox, and move my mouse to the address bar to paste in a URL after selecting it, yes, I know, I'm lazy. One version of linux/firefox at some point had middle click go to url enabled way back and I became very used to it. You highlight any url, put your mouse over your firefox window and middle click and it loads the url. For some reason this is disabled by default in Ubuntu 6.x->8.10/Firefox and I find that I have to go searching for the setting each time I install a new version. Well here it is, thanks to google and a site that tells you how to disable it, my firefox is back the way I like it on my new 8.10 desktop install:
In firefox's address bar type:
about:config
Search for middlemouse.contentLoadURL (hint: type middle in the filter bar)
Change the setting to true and middle click away :)
Michelle Agnew
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