[nycticorax]

I'm not surprised that GNOME would contemplate this: it seems like a very GNOME-y thing to do. (And maybe this is a good thing for GNOME users. But this kind of thing is also why I use KDE.) But why would Firefox feel the need to touch this? Surely this is a DE-level setting, and Firefox should simply go along with the DE behavior so that its behavior is consistent with the rest of the apps running in the desktop session.

[bitwize]

They're just moving to abolish something that should have been abolished decades ago, but wasn't for XKCD 1172 reasons.

[nycticorax]

Middle-click paste is faster than Ctrl-C-then-Ctrl-V. And if you are a developer, you often find yourself copying long strings from one place to another. And it has been a standard behavior on Linux since the 1990s. This just seems to me like more of GNOME's "simplicity at all costs" run amok. I'm a power user. I want poser user features. So I use KDE, a project run by people who care about power users and their needs. I'm happy for you if GNOME meets your needs.

[xerox13ster]

If they take away my space heater I riot.

But in all seriousness, why are we moving away from usability features ingrained into muscle memory after 30 years across all desktop computing platforms?

Have we not learned in the past 10 to 20 years that pandering to the lowest common denominator destroys good software and turns it into an enshittified mess?

We need to stop removing features because people are too stupid to use them.

If they’re too stupid to use the features they’re too stupid to use the product.