[dotancohen]

  > middle-click gets in the way a lot and can't be switched off,

What do you mean by this? What happens when you middle click, that you don't want or expect to happen?

  > not-so-great app switching

How do you like your app switching? I agree that the default isn't great, but in System Settings you can tweak it beyond all reason. I can help if you tell me what you want.

  > FF crashing

I haven't had that happen. What addons do you have in Firefox?

  > insists on chromium as default browser

Again, System Settings. Or, from within the Firefox settings, there might be a way to set it as default.

  > apps or other capabilities I'm using that I didn't already use 15 or 20 years ago

What apps or capabilities do you feel are missing?

[tannhaeuser]

Half of the time I want to press right-click or even left-click on the touch pad it actually registers as middle-click which is very annoying as it means a window gets closed rather than focussed; don't want middle-click at all. Undesired Middle-click-paste also happens a lot.

When I click a link from Thunderbird (weirdly as it sounds when Thunderbird is a Mozilla app) it opens chromium; dialog to set FF as default doesn't change this.

I need to retest and maybe reconfigure app switching from a (vertical) dock as you say; just doesn't feel fluent as it is.

Occasional FF crashing should probably be addressed at Moz. Maybe it's because FF on gnome gets more usage and testing. Btw, does SuSE (or Manjaro) still have a global-menu patch for FF because kubuntu (understandably) doesn't maintain such patches?

[radlad]

I don't use KDE or Wayland - I use awesome-wm with X11. I don't get a lot of Firefox crashes but one odd behavior I have noticed is that sometimes, after closing all Firefox windows, the firefox process continues to run (unresponding) in the background.

When this occurs, clicking links results in no browser windows opening. At this point I run `killall -9 firefox` and oddly, in that very moment, the link I clicked will open up in Chromium.

No idea why this happens.

[LtWorf]

> Half of the time I want to press right-click or even left-click on the touch pad it actually registers as middle-click

That's a hardware issue. If I press Q I am sure it will not be registered as ctrl+alt+Y for example.

[dotancohen]

  > Half of the time I want to press right-click or even left-click on the
  > touch pad it actually registers as middle-click

Are you sure that's not a hardware issue? This doesn't happen in other OSes on the same hardware?

[tannhaeuser]

Thanks for these helpful comments guys!

I guess I can remap middle-click to left-click using the wayland equivalent of xinput from a shell script or something. The apparent-FF-crash story described by johnmaguire and eddyb sounds very much like another thing I believe is happening on my notebook. Between these fuckups and the general alienation going on in Linux land (wayland, snaps/flatpack, systemd) I've got to say I'm not enthusiastic to go through those chores and teething probs just to get the same-old gui apps like Inkscape and GIMP (plus FF/Thunderbird) running, so right now I'm leaning to go back to Mac OS more than ever (used Mac OS on and off from 2003 to 2016).