GNOME and Firefox Consider Disabling Middle Click Paste By Default
Published: (January 5, 2026 at 06:20 PM EST)
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Source: Slashdot
Source: Slashdot
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Both GNOME and Firefox are considering disabling middle‑click paste by default, arguing it’s a confusing, accident‑prone X11 relic that dumps clipboard contents without warning. Phoronix reports: A merge request for GNOME’s gsettings-desktop-schemas was opened this weekend to disable the primary‑paste behavior…