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Tangentially related, but I hate by-default enabled middle mouse paste on Firefox. I use autoscroll (hold middle mouse) to browsing, and it keeps sending paste
by satanspastaroll 7y ago
Tangentially related, but I hate by-default enabled middle mouse paste on Firefox. I use autoscroll (hold middle mouse) to browsing, and it keeps sending paste on the site. Why is it enabled by default??
At best it's mild inconvenience, at worst it leaks company data to outside websites that bother to capture it.
- rvense 7y agoBecause this is how copy-paste always worked on X11. I'm used to it, so I hate apps that don't respect it. The option to disable it is an app-specific option to override the environment's default behaviour.
- satanspastaroll 7y agoIs there a way to globally disable middle mouse paste on X11? I don't really use it anywhere, and when i do, it's mostly by accident
- olau 7y agoIt's enabled because it's a very old standard, just like Ctrl-C + Ctrl-V. If you were using Ctrl-V to scroll down, I guess you'd have the same kind of problem and could level the same complaint. Tangentially related, applying constant pressure to a mouse button to scroll sounds like it could cause stress problem for your fingers long term.
- satanspastaroll 7y agoI use quick kind of flicks, so it's not a long time total the button is pressed. It also requires quite minimal amount of force to press. Concern is appreciated though
- de_watcher 7y agoWhy middle mouse paste doesn't work on Windows? Why it's disabled by default?? Why the middle mouse scrolls in Firefox instead of pasting? It's a major inconvenience which makes the default system unusable for me.
- satanspastaroll 7y agoMiddle mouse doesen't scroll by default as far as i know, autoscroll has to be enabled from the settings. The functionalities seem to overlap when scrolling is enabled, which isn't expected. Auto-pasting clipboard contents has security implications, whilst not having it only has inconvenience