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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Lost "middle click opens links" in KDE/Firefox combo - anyone else?
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2020 09:29:09
Message-Id: 20200130092856.790cb36d@digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Lost "middle click opens links" in KDE/Firefox combo - anyone else? by Mick
1 On Thu, 30 Jan 2020 09:07:00 +0000, Mick wrote:
2
3 > On Thursday, 30 January 2020 05:41:34 GMT Andrew Lowe wrote:
4
5 > > Yesterday afternoon, and for the last ??? years, I could be
6 > > using Firefox, within KDE and with a Logitech M560[1] mouse, middle
7 > > click on a link and a new tab would open containing the link.
8 >
9 > Yes, middle-click would paste a URL and FF would load it. This has
10 > been the behaviour of FF for as long as I can think on different
11 > desktops, not just Plasma/KDE.
12 >
13
14 > > I did an "emerge world", which included some KDE stuff, but
15 > > not Firefox, last night and this morning, this functionality is now
16 > > gone. Has anyone else got this problem or come across it being
17 > > mentioning in their wanderings of the web?
18
19 > I can confirm I can't paste with the middle button and navigate to a
20 > URL in FF or Falkon, but I don't know what has caused this. From what
21 > I recall Chromium never worked, while FF always did.
22
23 Chromium still behaves as it always did here, with a middle-click opening
24 the link in a new tab.
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27 --
28 Neil Bothwick
29
30 Computer apathy error: don't bother striking any key.

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