It seems like it was just one wacky Gnome dev. Not, as I was too quick to believe, a Mozilla thing.
It really is such bullshit.
Did they also disable ctrl+q to immediately quit Firefox? Right next to ctrl+w, which people use all the time?
Middle click paste is one of the best things about linux, that most compelled me to stay.
Blows my mind that there’s such damaging enshitifying ideas out there like getting rid of middle click paste.
Losing middle click paste would make the interface incalculably worse.
… Is it an idea from the competition, to sabotage?
This has been such a weird annoyance for me. Since I primarily use a Thinkpad with a track point, I would find myself middle click pasting randomly while scrolling through code or whatever
Isn’t it just a setting to disable it?
I really like it, and hate when I need ctrl c or right click for context menu. Especially when in some cases depending on where you right click the highlighting changes and you need to reselect the text.
It doesn’t change the fact that it’s a really weird default. How many users actually want this on, vs don’t care/don’t want it?
If you don’t know the answer to the question, than the first statement isn’t a fact.
I guess in the current wave of users abandoning windows, its a new feature that is unexpected, and could cause issues for them.
Maybe when I started playing in linux in the late 90s it was a wierd feature to me. Although, I’m not even sure I had a middle mouse wheel then. But it very quickly became second nature, once I discovered it and I hated when I had to use a windows machine and lost access to it.
Turning off every useful feature that linux has over windows, and making them all opt-in just to make it more windows like seems like a backwards step.
I understand and kinda agree with the reasoning, even though I love middle click paste. At least they’re saying there’ll be a setting to re enable it, the first thing I do on a fresh install is install Tweaks/Refine to rebind caps lock as ctrl so clicking an extra toggle wouldn’t be the biggest issue.
