Middle click scrolling for Linux version?

[Steffie]

@maniastern Definitely tis better than nothing, but i still long for the day when Linux distros generally, or failing that V specifically, will include native mousewheel-click autoscroll. We should not need extensions [duh].

I dislike RM coz [get ready for circular argument] the AS extension won't work in it , & i hate then having to scroll the old-school way. Also, though there's bound to be exceptions, for my aesthetic sensibilities RM is a "page-uglifier"; generally i prefer the page aesthetics as designed by the website devs [albeit sometimes modified by me with CSS]. Overall though, i have never yet been persuaded that there is really a problem that RM solves, ie, i can't grasp its raison d'etre. FYI, part of my aesthetic sensibility is that i value & prefer "little" over "big", hence in my Linux settings, & browser settings, i use small icons, smallish fonts, small UI zoom, <100% page zoom, rarely fullscreen [any pgm], etc. If i had to guess why some people seem to want RM it's that maybe they want to make the fonts larger... that's utter anathema to me.

Re O12, it's funny [& not a good credit to me] that i seem to have only discovered some of its wonderful functionality only after leaving it some years ago [once it was broken on too many sites for me], when i read fora including this one. PTs is one such function i'd never noticed back then. Sure, i'd be happy to give them a go if V one day gets them, but in the meantime i continue to not grasp why some people use PWs. Like i said/implied before, IMO a neophyte might get themselves into trouble if they use PWs in the naive belief that they are then "cloaked in invisibility". IMO there's nothing "private" about them at all, in any realistic sense of my concept of privacy. For that, i instead just limp along with a combo of VPN, anti-tracking extensions, DDG & StartPage but NEVER Google, never Twatter or FarceBuck, etc.

[Steffie]

@dleon said in Middle click scrolling for Linux version?:

IIRC, X11 issue.

Oh, interesting. I wonder if their attitude might change once Wayland is ubiquitous instead of X11 ?

[Stardust]

@maniastern said in Middle click scrolling for Linux version?:

AutoScroll Extension doesn't work fine, actually.

and when you zoom-in a page, this scroll-thing (how is it properly called?) is also becoming bigger.