Re: comments #3 and #8 What exactly do you mean by 'novice users might get confused'? The select-to-copy, middle-click-to-paste functionality in Ubuntu is one of its best-hidden secrets that you're only likely to discover by mistake if at all. And if by 'novice users' you mean 'users with some experience of Windows but little experience of Ubuntu' (which I suspect applies to many newcomers to Ubuntu) then the more confusing outcome for those familiar with Firefox on Windows would be for the middle-click scroll to be seemingly broken or absent, and then one day to middle-click (accidentally or otherwise) in a text input field, only to have some semi-random text unexpectedly appear.
The middle-click scroll functionality is a great bit of user interface design. For reading long web pages it's much less taxing on the hand than dragging the vertical scrollbar, and hugely preferable to endlessly scrolling the mouse wheel. It seems a shame not to make it available in Ubuntu. Or why not with a little extra effort implement the best of both worlds: middle click a text input box to paste the X primary selection, middle click anywhere else on the page to activate the scroll behaviour? -- Middle-Click does not scroll web site in feisty https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/111339 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs