Actually, you can select text with the left mouse button, you just have to pause a half second after doing it so the app doesn't recognize it as a gesture. That's why the scroll bar was such trouble; A quick flick of the scroll bar yielded a new window because I didn't pause.

And as to the 'left' mouse button thing, I'm a Mac user, and I am one of the few (apparently, from all the bitching attached to every /. article) who likes using one button.