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Middle mouse button
Raised as a usability problem by 7 people on Hacker News over 6 years (2021–2026), in 4 threads.
People raised many different problems with Middle mouse button, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 7 complaints
- Accidentally pastes selected text when middle-clicking or scrolling, with no warning2026-01-07
- Pastes unpredictable text when scrolling, with no clear cause, so the user can't tell why it happened2026-01-06
- Middle-click pastes unintentionally and Chromium/Electron apps offer no setting to disable it2026-01-06
- Middle click paste works inconsistently across websites, failing on some code blocks2025-08-15
- Middle-click scrolling takes seconds to reach the bottom, so dragging the scrollbar is faster2022-05-05
- Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V copy and paste feels infuriatingly slow compared to X11 selection2021-12-30
- Middle click on scroll wheel accidentally triggers scrolling, making middle-click actions unreliable2021-12-30