Comment 22 for bug 636720

Same issue since Ubuntu 10.10 on a Samsung X20 notebook, with a "classical" standard 2-button synaptics touchpad.
This touchpad worked fine on all previous versions of ubuntu - so I tagged the bug as regression.

The "left click sends a middle click"-issue appears in roughly 10% of the cases and resulted in a terrible usability:
- Imaging using Firefox and a left click on a tab closes the tab in 10% of the cases.
- Or clicking on a link opens a new tab - after 30 minutes of surfing you will end up with 20 tabs opened.
- Same thing in nautilus - tabs randomly opened all over the place.

The workaround suggested by Kruffwuff seem to work for me.

Should this problem reported upstream? Or this this a downstream (Ubuntu+Suse) bug?