Middle button navigate on paste in Chromium or Chrome for Linux

I've switched to Chromium on most of my computers now, and the missing functionality of middle clicking after selecting the text of a (non-hyperlinked) URL to navigate irritated me to no end.

I frequently find text-only URLs (on mailing lists, for example) that I want to immediately navigate to, and double clicking the text and then clicking the 3rd/middle button gets me there fast. I've done it for so long that it's muscle memory.

This is standard behavior (except in Ubuntu based versions) in Firefox. After some searching, I found this little-known extension called Navigate on Paste. It only works on Linux.

https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/bpeohalpamaeaimliodkepkphdnhdidf

There's a pretty long bug ticket here where I found the extension: Issue 11612 - chromium - middle-click into body doesn't load PRIMARY selection as URL - Project Hosting on Google Code

If you use Firefox on an Ubuntu or Ubuntu-derivative, you can enable this functionality by going to about:config and setting middlemouse.contentLoadURL true.

Edit: If you want to try it out...

Step 1: install the extension from here.

Step 2: Reload this page (so that the newly installed extension takes effect).

Step 3: Double click this url:

kernel.org

Step 4: Click the middle mouse button, or both mouse buttons at the same time if using a touchpad. On a mac running linux tap two or three fingers (depending on your configuration).