New issue
Advanced search Search tips

Issue 704554 link

Starred by 2 users

Issue metadata

Status: WontFix
Owner: ----
Closed: Mar 2017
Components:
EstimatedDays: ----
NextAction: ----
OS: ----
Pri: 3
Type: ----



Sign in to add a comment

Option to disable middle-click-to-paste

Project Member Reported by marymc@google.com, Mar 23 2017

Issue description

This template is ONLY for reporting privacy issues. Please use a different
template for other types of bug reports.

Please see http://www.chromium.org/Home/chromium-privacy for further
information.


PRIVACY ISSUE
Mouse button sensitivity increases gradually over time, so pastes can often happen as a user is trying to scroll, without the user being aware (because by the time they notice, they have already scrolled past). There is currently no way to easily disable middle-click-to-paste feature (https://groups.google.com/a/google.com/forum/#!msg/goobuntu-discuss/aKAI24OKF7U/5xab7ktCDQAJ), and it makes it very easy for sensitive data on the clipboard to be inserted into things that are not private to a user (e.g. shared docs).

This had been happening to me for a few weeks (snippets from other tabs would mysteriously show up in my CLs I'd made in Cider, or shared docs) before I realized what was going on and replaced my 7-year-old mouse.

VERSION:
Chrome Version: beta
Operating System: Goobuntu

REPRODUCTION STEPS
Obtain a mouse with a sensitive middle button. Copy some text to the clipboard, open a Google doc with some text in it, and be slightly more enthusiastic than usual when scrolling down using the middle button.

 

Comment 1 by battre@chromium.org, Mar 24 2017

Status: WontFix (was: Untriaged)
I think that the solutions are to replace the mouse or control this at the desktop manager level. I don't see Chrome adding an option for this because it is too much of a niche feature.

Sign in to add a comment