Closed Bug 24571 Opened 25 years ago Closed 24 years ago

Middle-mouse paste should be pref-able

Categories

(Core :: XUL, defect, P3)

Product:
Core
Component:
XUL
Type:
defect

Tracking

()

Status:
VERIFIED FIXED

People

(Reporter: mcafee, Assigned: akkzilla)

References

Details

(Whiteboard: [PDT-] Easy, safe fix available) 

Middle-mouse paste should be pref-able,
mouse wheel pastes on NT w/ mouse-wheel,
some Windows users might not want that.
Clarification: the mouse wheel doesn't paste automatically, but it's trivially
easy to go from mouse wheeling up to pasting into who knows where... And when I
paste into something other than a text area the browser attempts to load
whatever is in my clipboard as if it's a URL.

m15
Target Milestone: M15
*** Bug 25295 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Blocks: 25295
*** Bug 25295 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
No longer blocks: 25295
I'll take this -- I don't think Chris will have time for it.
It would help if I clicked the reassign button. :-)
Assignee: mcafee → akkana
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
I have a fix for this.  It's very easy -- just a couple of lines in navigator.js
to check the pref, plus two lines in each of the platform default prefs files to
set default values for the prefs.

I called the prefs "middlemouse.paste" and "middlemouse.opennewwindow" and made
them true by default on linux and mac (I'm told mouse scrolling doesn't work on
mac and isn't expected to any time soon), false on windows.

Nominating for beta because many Windows scroll-mouse users seem surprised by
the middle mouse behavior (there are lots of dups of this bug if you trace down
the dup tree), but Unix users are clamoring for it (see bug 7787, which has also
been nominated for beta) and because the fix is available and safe.  I'm hoping
that both this and bug 7787 get marked PDT+ because that's the combination I'm
testing, but I can split them up if need be.
Keywords: beta1
Whiteboard: Easy, safe fix available
PDT- feature
Whiteboard: Easy, safe fix available → [PDT-] Easy, safe fix available
*** Bug 29623 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
The fix is in.
Status: ASSIGNED → RESOLVED
Closed: 24 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
qa -> jrgm
QA Contact: paulmac → jrgm
filed an rfe for a gui for these prefs, bug 55704.
verified fixed. (Don't you love bugs that you never knew you had anymore).
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Depends on: 675551
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