GNOME and Firefox Consider Disabling Middle Click Paste By Default

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By BeauHDJan 5, 2026, 11:20 pm101 pts
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…

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