Calling it a 'dumpster fire' is a bit dramatic.

I use this DAILY!

I can live with this one, as long as they let us pick the function

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"...

Urgh, I use it at least 300 times a day.

Bravo Michael for continuing to farm bullshit drama with clickbait headlines on the most inane topics like "how my DE handles pasting text"

I never used it, but TIL......

For me it'his is one of the most useful features of Linux desktops and one of the main reasons I feel lost when I have to use Windows.

It's one of those things you either use constantly or not at all. Activating the feature intentionally and having it fail is irritating, but activating it unintentionally because you didn't know it was there could have serious consequences. I mean, I can even come up with cases where the wrong information being C&P'd accidentally into the wrong Web form could result in someone ending up dead.

Given the difference in stakes, "off by default" makes sense for this feature. I wouldn't call it a dumpster fire, though—more like a relic of a more innocent time.

I'm just lost why it's so hard baked into x11 instead of configurable. I don't want middle click to paste my selections. Yes I know x11 has some history and that it's a feature, I do not like that feature. I will never like that feature. I want to copy manually and paste manually.

I don't want my selections to be captured in a buffer.

Ill be very happy when that day comes. Its one of the first things I need to search for how to disable every time i setup a new machine. To me, middle click has always been panning a canvas, and rectangle selecting text in editors. Its always super jarring having it paste text on new gnome machines

Middle click paste sucks, I keep accideE&4nry!NAnY6Yfntally activating it in the middle of my documents which is bad when I have st6SFMzZkTR7!b^yuff like passwords copied and don't notice, so good

Middle click paste is extremely useful. Why would anyone want to disable it?

As someone who likes the middle-click to do mouse relative scrolling, I would be OK with this being configurable on a per-application level.

I don't think it really makes sense as a "standard". Blender will never use middle click as paste, for example.

Not having that in Windows is jarring.

I don't use GNOME or Firefox though so maybe who cares.

No, secondary clipboard Ctrl+v paste is a Windowsism

I like using this on my desktop, but it's way too easy to trigger this by accident on a laptop, so I disable it on there.

And the keyboard shortcut for primary clipboard paste (Shift+Ins) is already gone from gtk.

• https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/issues/352 (closed)
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1070518 (open)
• There's a nice Q/A on stackexchange: "Why does Shift+Insert paste from CLIPBOARD in some applications and PRIMARY in others?"

As a newgen (derogatory), Id appreciate this. Middle click has always been auto-scroll to me and it takes a good search to figure out how to disable it on a new installation.

as someone new to linux i don't get it. if you have your hand in ctrl-c anyway ctrl-v is right there?

If that's not optional, I'd have to leave Firefox for something else.

I am used to using middle mouse button to move canvas in both Krita and Inkscape. I know that it would be a silly default to just use it for movement, but countless missclicks in LibreOffice are reason good enough to be at least ocassionally frustrated over the default.

Well, I guess I'd have to use a fork of... oh, wait a second, I've already been alternating between Pale Moon, SeaMonkey, LibreWolf, and Firefox along with Tor and Links.

I just would be using less of Firefox and more of LibreWolf. And when Ladybird is ready, I'll use that and dillo.

Yes, please. Lets dumb down userinterfaces more. I think the right mouse button should go away next, people can't rightclick on touchscreens anyway, and many are confused by the extra button.

/s. so many /s. thank good it's open source, if they ever remove the setting to turn it back on, i can just put the code back in.

It's odd to call middle click to paste a dumpster fire when the Windows console will use a modal behaviour for right click - by default it's paste (and there are certain situations where you can only reliably paste with right click), unless you have text selected, then copy that text (and deselect it). By comparison middle click is pretty damn predictable.

I wonder however how much of the complaints come from laptop users with oversized touchpads who are frustrated by accidental clicks while typing. But it'd be odd that only middle click is singled out then.

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

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.

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?