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On Thursday, 30 January 2020 09:28:56 GMT Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Thu, 30 Jan 2020 09:07:00 +0000, Mick wrote: |
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> > On Thursday, 30 January 2020 05:41:34 GMT Andrew Lowe wrote: |
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> > > Yesterday afternoon, and for the last ??? years, I could be |
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> > > using Firefox, within KDE and with a Logitech M560[1] mouse, middle |
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> > > click on a link and a new tab would open containing the link. |
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> > Yes, middle-click would paste a URL and FF would load it. This has |
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> > been the behaviour of FF for as long as I can think on different |
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> > desktops, not just Plasma/KDE. |
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> > > I did an "emerge world", which included some KDE stuff, but |
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> > > not Firefox, last night and this morning, this functionality is now |
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> > > gone. Has anyone else got this problem or come across it being |
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> > > mentioning in their wanderings of the web? |
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> > I can confirm I can't paste with the middle button and navigate to a |
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> > URL in FF or Falkon, but I don't know what has caused this. From what |
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> > I recall Chromium never worked, while FF always did. |
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> Chromium still behaves as it always did here, with a middle-click opening |
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> the link in a new tab. |
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Hmm ... I just checked again. It doesn't do so on two different systems. I |
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wonder if some setting is responsible for it not working here. :-/ |
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Regards, |
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Mick |