In preferences (under User Interface, Mouse) you can set the middle button to "Paste and load selection as url". This means you don't even need to use the "clear location" toolbar button, you can just click with the middle button on the page you're viewing. Fortunately, this doesn't interfere with clicking on a link with the middle button (which opens the link in a new window/tab).
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The world record is certainly not just 80.5mph:
/ record.asp?recordid=52629
http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/content_pages
A relevant paper (by Markus Kuhn, same guy who did the research about evesdropping on CRTs using the ambient light generated) here.
You can find Andrea Arcangeli's fix at:n drea/kernels/v2.4/2.4.15aa1/00_iput-unmount-corrup tion-fix-1
ftp://ftp.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/a
In preferences (under User Interface, Mouse) you can set the middle button to "Paste and load selection as url". This means you don't even need to use the "clear location" toolbar button, you can just click with the middle button on the page you're viewing. Fortunately, this doesn't interfere with clicking on a link with the middle button (which opens the link in a new window/tab).