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HardSun

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GNOME & Firefox Consider Disabling Middle Click Paste By Default

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

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

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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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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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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.

ashley_brooks

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

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..

Respectfully I have to disagree here. I use middle click to paste but I understand it can be a security vulnerability - really it's a bad habit of my own I ought to fix is how I look at it. I've always thought it to be a legacy feature of X.org which has stuck around for whatever reason - I am surprised that so many people use it as there are. But for security reasons, I can absolutely see why disabling the buffer in the browser would be done (at least by default) - users who are unaware the feature even exists might unknowingly be making a paste buffer available to malware served by advertising companies (or malicious software itself)

As Emmanuel says, we are always free to fork software. After all, such freedom is what allows Devuan to exist in the first place and for init freedom to be preserved. I think it's not fair to say that Firefox will be shipping specifically for GTK4 anytime soon either, as KDE has a large (and growing) userbase around Qt.

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steve_v

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

KDE

...Is doing much the same with its not-like-winblows features and workflows (single-click activation, primary buffer on mouse 3, window shading, etc.), but at least they keep most of them available behind configuration options (for now).

Make no mistake, that's all this is - pandering to "users who are unaware" and dumbing-down the interface to the lowest common denominator to make the windows refugees more comfortable.

security

Is the siren-song of the Fischer-price UI, and the perennial excuse for the removal of sharp edges, no matter how useful they may be when used sensibly.

legacy feature of X.org which has stuck around for whatever reason

Reason? Because it's useful, and people who know how to use it are are used to it.

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