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GNOME and Mozilla Discuss Proposal to Disable Middle Mouse Paste on Linux

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GNOME and Mozilla Discuss Proposal to Disable Middle Mouse Paste on Linux

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Gnome@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish · 4 months ago

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A long-standing Linux behavior is under threat as GNOME and Mozilla review a proposal to disable middle-mouse paste.

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Applications like Firefox can register the middle mouse click, but they can’t reasonably prevent the paste action.

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