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HardSun

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Registered: 2025-07-29

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GNOME & Firefox Consider Disabling Middle Click Paste By Default

"An X11'ism...Dumpster Fire"

https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Fir … lick-Paste

Wont be long now, firefox will be functioning specifically for gtk4 and the gnome DE.

greenjeans

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Re: GNOME & Firefox Consider Disabling Middle Click Paste By Default

Lol. Sounds like somebody fat-fingered that middle-click once too often and exploded into geek fury.

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RedGreen925

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Registered: 2024-12-07

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Re: GNOME & Firefox Consider Disabling Middle Click Paste By Default

Lol. Sounds like somebody fat-fingered that middle-click once too often and exploded into geek fury.

Nah just the Gnome trolls anti-user philosophy rearing its ugly head once more. Do not know if I count the number of times I have seen it from them clowns in the twenty-six plus soon to be twenty-seven years of using GNU/Linux. Seems they have roped in the Firefox anti-user crowd for this one too, they have been getting fairly good with competing with them for top honors the last few years..

blackhole

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Registered: 2020-03-16

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Re: GNOME & Firefox Consider Disabling Middle Click Paste By Default

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/epiphany/-/issues/1814

I believe it conflicts with a feature called "mouse gestures".

If that feature is what I think it is, then it's also used in certain browsers and I have always instantly disabled it.

You have to bear in mind though, that gnome aren't focused on creating a desktop for people who want to customise and use their computer the way they want to use it - it's just a bad macOS imitation, developed by narcissists for idiots, and mostly funded by the likes of Red Hat. So in that world "mouse gestures" are a gimmick seeing more widespread use than primary paste (although I doubt it).

Mozilla corporation/foundation aren't even worth consideration. Nothing but empty, meaningless babble has come from that side for over a decade.