Add preferences option to disable "Middle click to close" functionality.

[annunaki2k2]

The option was added with bug #155/#156, and I'm sure for many users it's a great new feature. However, for me, as a clumsy laptop touchpad user, it has caused a number of accidental tab closures and ensuing headaches when I'm tab switching and meaning to middle click paste something.

Please can we have an option to disable this somewhere/somehow?

A huge thanks in advance.

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[sc0w]

@annunaki2k2 if we change the behavior to close the tabs only if the button is released, do you think this issue can be solved?

[annunaki2k2]

I'm not sure it would help unfortunately - the problem is that it's often a very quick thing: highlight text in one place, middle click to paste it, and whomp, tab closed. What you're proposing would allow you to stop something that you've realised is about to happen, but when you're using the three finger soft tap to paste on a laptop touchpad, I don't think this behaviour change would particularly help.

[jhasse]

What do you think about an in-app-notification like "Tab closed [Undo]", which would restore the closed tab along with all of its history?

[annunaki2k2]

@jhasse TBH, that sounds like quite a large feature and potentially a lot of work just to avoid adding another preference/option. By all means add such a feature, but it still doesn't really solve the problem for users like me, it merely adds a way to recover when such a problem occurs (but that still leads to a disrupted workflow).

Honestly, the best option is a really simple configurable option where this functionality can be enabled or disabled as a user wishes. It can, of course, default to being enabled to retain this current new behaviour, but it gives laptop/trackpad users like me the opportunity to disable functionality that inadvertently interferes with the way we work.