[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 46733] REGRESSION (r67261): Middle-mouse-release opens links regardless of "press" location

Thu Sep 30 11:34:09 PDT 2010

https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46733

--- Comment #14 from Brenton <webkit at appsforartists.com>  2010-09-30 11:34:08 PST ---
So, you just recently pulled the click event with a button value of 1 after years of having it?  I've never heard of middle click events causing an issue, but the Web is a big place.

I've been using mousedown event.preventDefault() to block smooth-scrolling and contexual menus.  Will I still be able to do that?

Making changes to the way a browser behaves seems like a dangerous move.  Any apps designed around the old behavior (which as you've said is also the logical one) will now be broken.

I'm honestly considering switching away from Chrome as my main browser as it seems to be breaking things quite often.  Perhaps I should move off the dev channel, but if I do that, it's even more likely that the broken bits will make it downstream.  

I don't have time to debug my projects against every single Chrome release, but it seems I need to start doing so or else broken functionality will creep into a major browser.

Is there some sort of resource where you guys publish major changes?  I'm afraid that you're going to change the way two major browsers behave in a given situation and nobody is going to know until they realize their apps are now misbehaving.  

In the last couple months, my extension has gone vacillated between working perfectly, partially working, and not working at all depending on the Chrome build installed.

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