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We're creatures of habit. In this case it's a behaviour that existed for two decades or so. Sure, it doesn't make much sense, but the same goes for various func
by ygra 10y ago
We're creatures of habit. In this case it's a behaviour that existed for two decades or so. Sure, it doesn't make much sense, but the same goes for various functions of the middle mouse button, depending on context: open new tab, close tab, open new application, close window, scroll, paste. Yet you don't see anyone changing those.
- bobajeff 10y agoThat's because those shortcuts don't usually end up losing all user input if somehow focus got moved off of the text entry field. This is a change that should've happened a long time ago.
- Aldo_MX 10y ago> Yet you don't see anyone changing those. Except for (guess who?) Chromium... https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=255 https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=255
- Klathmon 10y agoThey aren't removing middle click, they are just making it not fire off an onclick javascript event (to match the behavior of all other browsers).