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byallo ( 1728082 ) writes:
I don't care about GNOME, they fucked up the rest of their desktop as well. But Firefox is one of the main applications and randomly disabling widely used features is a bad idea. And one can wonder for how long they maintain an opt-in switch before removing it completely. What do we need then? Helper apps that intercept middle clicks to run ctrl-c ctrl-v?
The problem is also, that ctrl-v is NOT equivalent to middle click paste. That are two clipboards that function slightly different and an hold different co
bytender-matser ( 938909 ) writes:
And one can wonder for how long they maintain an opt-in switch before removing it completely.
Probably not for long; the code which implements the primary selection handling on X11 in mozilla is BADLY broken, and they don't have anybody with the slightest clue about that stuff in their whole team, nor do they care to accept help from outside. And of course, they basically don't give a fuck about Linux / X11 (despite Linux users probably being about 40-50% of their REAL -- non-bot, non-website testers -- users left nowadays)
So at the first hitch they will rip it off completely.
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byallo ( 1728082 ) writes:
I still don't understand why they removed the "clickSelectsAll" option for the address bar. Disabling the feature is just wrapping it into an if, but they still insisted on completely removing it instead of just changing the default.
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