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GNOME & Firefox Consider Disabling Middle Click Paste By Default: "An X11'ism...Dumpster Fire" (www.phoronix.com)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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[–] 17 points 10 months ago (5 children)

Damn, the amount of comments that didn't even read the full... title... Is reading comprehension getting this bad? Middle clic paste isn't getting removed, just being opt-in rather than opt-out, yet a bunch of commenters are up in arms "time to ditch firefox"...

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Half of them probably will. People are like that.

    Many times, I have seen people switch tech because something is missing or has changed…and they switch to something that also does not have it. Boggles my mind.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Historically speaking, the gnome devs have made “disabled by default” the first step towards removing a feature everyone uses.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (1 child)

    Historically speaking, from what I'm reading is that gnome devs have a history of bad decisions birthing forks here and there "fine, I'll do my own gnome, with blackjack and hookers" too, so I don't know how much weigh such a decision can have to be perfectly honnest.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    Eh, gnome is the default on some of the biggest distributions in a time when apparently lots of people are trying Linux for the first time so there’s an outsized opportunity for their usual shenanigans to have consequences for the rest of us.

    Which has happened a bunch of times in the past.

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