RFC: Firefox general.autoScroll to true

[Naheem Zaffar]

>
> More anedoctal evidence: at my job, some windows users who access
> GNU/Linux and AIX servers via Putty, regularly use "copy on select"
> (which Putty provides) and do *love* *it*!
>
> Since Windows doesn't have the concept of pasting the PRIMARY buffer
> with the "middle button", Putty uses the right button for it.
>
> There is also another argument against changing this behaviour on
> Firefox:
>
>  1. fix consistency for Windows Firefox users
>  2. break consistency for all GNU/Linux desktop users
>
> The hipotetical benefit of 1. is far overcome by the concrete disaster
> of 2., IMHO.
>

Once again, the problem in NOT copy on select, nor paste on middle button.
It is "use primary buffer as a link to go to" on middle button click.

Not really that big of a deal, but there is much misunderstanding over what
the original poster complained about.
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