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middle-click (scrollwheel-click), severe breach of privacy, security issue.
Usecase;I mark text with my cursor as I read. Sometimes this could be "sensitive" information. If I'm on a forum, or reading a news-site, I usually scroll over the front page, and middle-click the links to articles I want to read. They pop up in new background tabs for later reading. Very neat
(I always have to set "When closing a tab: Activate the next tab" on fresh Opera installs, to make this "style" of browsing more optimal, so I suppose this is not the most common way of browsing)
Anyway;
Whenever you mark text in the x-window-system, it goes into some clipboard buffer. If you just middle-click on empty space in Opera, you'll google what you've got in that clipboard. I think it's a REALLY BAD IDEA to google whatever I've got in the clipboard buffer if I miss on a link with a middle-click . I view it as a severe breach of privacy. I'd rather not google on random text I've marked while reading personal email. They end up saving those weird searches, for statistical- or other purposes.
Thanks for this tip!
I notice I can still use middle-click to paste clipboard text into fields and forms with middle-click, with "start panning" enabled. Which harmless and functionality I'd expect. So I really don't see a reason for middle-clicks on empty areas in opera to google whatever is in the clipboard.
You should really make "Start panning" the default setting. What would be the reasons not to?
I notice I can still use middle-click to paste clipboard text into fields and forms with middle-click, with "start panning" enabled. Which harmless and functionality I'd expect. So I really don't see a reason for middle-clicks on empty areas in opera to google whatever is in the clipboard.
You should really make "Start panning" the default setting. What would be the reasons not to?
Originally posted by ebbex:
I really don't see a reason for middle-clicks on empty areas in opera to google whatever is in the clipboard.
Because it's probably the fastest search shortcut. And sometimes I completely forget I can select, right-click and click Search or feel too lazy to copy-paste into the address bar.
What Opera is really doing is acting as if you'd pasted the text into the address bar and pressed the Enter key - if the text had been a URL it would go directly to that URL. Since the text is obviously not a URL (probably because it contains spaces) Opera is instead using the default search. Similar to "Paste and Go", except that you never had to select Copy.\
Note that Opera will still do that if you middle-click a blank space on the tab bar, though that too can be disabled. See opera:config#middle (which should show you a setting named "PageBar Open URL On MiddleClick").
Note that Opera will still do that if you middle-click a blank space on the tab bar, though that too can be disabled. See opera:config#middle (which should show you a setting named "PageBar Open URL On MiddleClick").
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