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GNOME and Mozilla Discuss Proposal to Disable Middle Mouse Paste on Linux (linuxiac.com)
submitted 7 months ago by to c/linux@sopuli.xyz
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[–] 7 points 7 months ago (3 children)

The middle mouse is important for browsing. I understand and see how that can cause issues. This is not about Windows, it is about the browser and this specific feature.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Aren't those different elements?

    (Text) Input element - pastes with middle click Hyperlinks - open in new tab "Empty space"/background/text - maybe use for the scroll thingy, I've never used

    I don't really see the problem here, or do I miss something?

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    I think you can use it for side-scrolling or page-moving(???) or so.
    Somewhat exotic, I don't think I know anyone who uses the middle button for anything other than the standard mouse-wheel vertical scrolling, which has nothing to do with pressing the middle button.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    Due to the way my browser is laid out I do need the scroll right-left, I miss a chunk of info on the right of some pages making me use the ity bity scroll bar at the bottom of the page. I did stop trying after my 3rd time in a month clicking the wheel now I just don't do it. A toggle would be better than changing an action so many of you have ingrained, I can't see myself ever getting used to this action as I prefer to hot key my way through copy/paste/etc. Don't mess with the old guard to gain new users, you will only lose

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    I mean, middle click seems to open links in tabs fine here, even though I have paste on it as well.

    So I don't see that there is a problem there? Except in the use case of side-scrolling by clicking the middle button - is that a thing?

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