Mozilla Firefox Finally Fixes An Awkward, 11 Year Old Linux Bug

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Mozilla Firefox Finally Fixes An Awkward, 11 Year Old Linux Bug

It's taken more than a decade, but after enough user complaints, there is finally a patch queued for Firefox 57 to fix an arguably annoying default behavior of Firefox on Linux/Unix systems...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...ddle-Click-Bug

[EKRboi]

I held out on Firefox for probably many more years than I should have.. was an advocate for Firefox over chrome/chromium pretty hardcore.

I finally decided to try chromium a couple of months ago, I expected to HATE it, but I haven't looked back. It's faster and my add-ons work better. Mozilla needs to get their stuff together.

[shmerl]

For me, middle click on the page always opened autoscrolling (with circle cursor appearing, and scrolling happening by moving the mouse up and down). So I didn't even know there was such bug. Middle click on the link on the other hand, opens that link in a new tab. I find it very useful.

UPDATE: I just tested, and Firefox indeed pastes text if you do middle click in a text area (it does it in addition to enabling autoscrolling there). That's quite messy.

Chromium? No, thanks.

[Sn3ipen]

For me, middle click on the page always opened autoscrolling (with circle cursor appearing, and scrolling happening by moving the mouse up and down). So I didn't even know there was such bug. Middle click on the link on the other hand, opens that link in a new tab. I find it very useful.

Then you have manually disabled this feature by activating 'automatic scrolling'. A new installation will not behave like that.

UPDATE: I just tested, and Firefox indeed pastes text if you do middle click in a text area (it does it in addition to enabling autoscrolling there). That's quite messy.

That's how it should behave.

I don't know if you are aware, but middle click is like a second clipboard on Linux.

[tarceri]

I held out on Firefox for probably many more years than I should have.. was an advocate for Firefox over chrome/chromium pretty hardcore.

I finally decided to try chromium a couple of months ago, I expected to HATE it, but I haven't looked back. It's faster and my add-ons work better. Mozilla needs to get their stuff together.

Lol, years of planning is finally coming together in release 57. Hopefully it is worth the wait.

[shmerl]

I don't know if you are aware, but middle click is like a second clipboard on Linux.

I use it in the terminal, but not really anywhere else.

[NateHubbard]

This is a carry over feature from the days of Netscape. I can see how it would be pretty confusing to someone that wasn't aware how it worked. It's especially a problem if you are middle-click pasting into a form or something and miss, suddenly browsing away if the location was a url.

[Beerbaron23]

"I held out on Firefox for probably many more years than I should have.. was an advocate for Firefox over chrome/chromium pretty hardcore.

I finally decided to try chromium a couple of months ago, I expected to HATE it, but I haven't looked back. It's faster and my add-ons work better. Mozilla needs to get their stuff together."


Kinda bad timing being a Firefox advocate and switching just when Firefox is finally becomes faster then Chromium since the addition of Electrolysis...

[Beerbaron23]

"I held out on Firefox for probably many more years than I should have.. was an advocate for Firefox over chrome/chromium pretty hardcore.

I finally decided to try chromium a couple of months ago, I expected to HATE it, but I haven't looked back. It's faster and my add-ons work better. Mozilla needs to get their stuff together."


Kinda a kick in the ass being a former Firefox advocate, deciding to switch to Chromium just as Firefox becomes faster than Chromium since they introduced Electrolysis...

[leipero]

NateHubbard Yeah, recently i had same reaction as one of the commenters in bug report:

'Me like: "What da heck?"'

Since I do not use Firefox that often, it happened only few times to me, but still.