When I release the middle mouse button it paste text from clipboard. Very strange and annoying. Why and how can I get rid of it? Using Firefox 79 on Ubuntu 20.04.
Edit: I can use Spacebar + Left click and Hold to pan instead. No text is pasted.
When I release the middle mouse button it paste text from clipboard. Very strange and annoying. Why and how can I get rid of it? Using Firefox 79 on Ubuntu 20.04.
Edit: I can use Spacebar + Left click and Hold to pan instead. No text is pasted.
Hi,
The problem is the middle paste option in Firefox.
To turn it off do as follow:
Good luck
I donāt think this is a solution, or at least not a solution for those who use the middlemouse.paste
function elsewhere.
I donāt usually expect to paste text onto a board without a text cursor somewhere inside a text area. The automatic creation of the text area is quite surprising to me.
That solution works, but it will disable all middle-click paste functionality in whole Firefox on all sites! So this breaks filling inputs and other form items in Firefox globally. Is there any way to disable this only for Figma website?
And why in Chromium browsers middle-click paste works right in Figma to scroll, and as paste on other fields?
For example, in Draw-io (Diagrams-Net app) - mouse scroll with middle click works right on Firefox and on Chromium too without pasting. So seems this is a bug in some Figma frontend JS code.
Is there any ideas how this bug can be fixed in Figma, without disabling middle-click paste globally in Firefox?
And solution on Figma side can be simple - donāt accept paste after releasing middle mouse button, if there is drag mode enabled.
Wondering if thereās been any movement hereā¦ I really donāt like having to disable middle click across all pages, but middle click + drag is essential functionality for me
Being a new user, I just ran into this issue as well. In my opinion, and like others have said, I donāt see why the default middle mouse button event canāt be canceled/disabled in favor of the panning function.
Also it seems that this is community forum and not a development ticket. Anyone that finds this page and looking for the same thing should go submit a request here: https://help.figma.com/hc/en-us/requests/new
New user too here, Iām also used to extensively using the middle click for dragging due to habits shaped by Inkscape, Godot, etc. So after finding this thread, I realized I needed I just whipped up a quick greasesmonkey script to fix this unfortunate issue. You need to add the free āGreasemonkeyā addon to Firefox, then inside it you create a new script and you just paste the code below, reload Figma, and enjoy. Because of the @match comment, the script only affect figma.com and no other website.
What the script does: it simply checks if there is dragging when the middle button is released, and if so, it just cancels the āpasteā event that comes next.
Hope itās of use to someone else! If so, youāre welcome
FYI Figma people: without this hack Figma is like at least 40% less usable and enjoyable. I think you should really consider fixing the issue, itās been years and I bet itās turned away quite a few other potential clients.
// ==UserScript==
// @name Fix Figma
// @version 1
// @grant none
// @match https://www.figma.com/*
// ==/UserScript==
const middle_button = 1
let nopaste = false
const delta = 6;
let startX;
let startY;
document.addEventListener('mousedown', function (event) {
startX = event.pageX;
startY = event.pageY;
});
document.addEventListener('mouseup', function(e) {
const diffX = Math.abs(e.pageX - startX);
const diffY = Math.abs(e.pageY - startY);
if (diffX < delta && diffY < delta) {
// It's a click, not a drag
return false
}
if (e.button == middle_button) {
nopaste = true
}
return false;
}, true);
document.addEventListener('paste', function(e) {
if (nopaste) {
e.cancelBubble = true;
e.stopImmediatePropagation();
nopaste = false
}
return false;
}, true);
I literally just switched to Linux/Firefox today and I was wondering what on earth was going on. Your script is a godsend, thank you for sharing!
This is a serious bug and they really should fix it.
I agree that disabling the functionality in the browser should not be considered a solution. While Iām not using the mouse paste functionality myself, many people do. Disabling a core system functionality because one app isnāt set up to work with it properly is not the right way.
Iāve not encountered any other web-based app and middle mouse navigation with this problem, including Figma competitors with far less resources.
Thanks man, I was about to do this myself so you saved me quite a bit of figuring out. Iām surprised it hasnāt been fixed in Figma when itās such a trivial fix.
Yeah, this was quite annoying and took me a while to figure out what happened until I stumbled upon this thread. I had nothing in clipboard, and a blank text field started appearing all the time. I thought middle mouse button was mapped to some shortcut for a tool within Figma until I reached here.
Switching to āHand toolā (h), then Press and hold left mouse button
is what Iām right now doing to workaround this. Maybe, thatās what Figma intended to do ?