The problem with this (and to me it's a super annoying problem - marking and pasting with left and middle button is super fast and efficient) is that some browsers (or maybe it's the toolkits behind them) start to either ignore this functionality or force you to repeat the action before it works.

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globular-toast 6 days ago | parent | next [-]

Yeah, I've noticed this with "some browsers" (ie. Chrome).

It's reason enough for me to stick with Firefox.

	▲	cycomanic 6 days ago \| parent [-]
		I'm almost exclusively using firefox and I encounter it on some websites and not others. In particular selection in code boxes is the thing that often doesn't work. So I suspect it's actually not the browsers but some websites playing weird js shenanigans.

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arp242 6 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Depends what you mean with "to select something"; for example if you click on the URL bar in Firefox then all the text is automatically selected. Should that count as the user "selecting" something? Perhaps not? None of this is very straight-forward.

	▲	Tor3 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		If I do that in a Chrome-based browser, the text looks like it's selected, but it isn't. Same if I just mark the text using the left button. It won't paste when I click the middle button. I have to click again, then double click, and then it'll paste - most of the time. Elsewhere I either double-click on a word, which will select that word for pasting, or I mark a section with the left button (press and hold at the beginning of the selection, move and release). And the middle button will paste. And paste again, if I wish. But URLs in Chrome-based browsers instead behave in the annoying way described above. In the past it worked as expected.