Comments on: Prevent Annoying Websites From Messing With the Right-Click Menu in Firefox

By: Izkata

Izkata — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 04:37:33 +0000

Alternatively, most sites that do the alert popup do it in such a way that the right-click event goes undetected by the script if you do it a slightly different way:

*Hold the left mouse button
*Press and hold the right mouse button
*Release the left
*Release the right

By: null

null — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 01:52:23 +0000

I use NoScript with Firefox for this. It was originally a security thing, but I’ve found it’s now more for convenience, allowing me to disable annoying javascripts while allowing ones that are useful (e.g. GoogleDocs) through

By: bassmadrigal

bassmadrigal — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 00:44:12 +0000

I have always used a bookmarklet. It is just some javascript code which will restore the context menu that you save as a bookmarklet.

I added it below, but I am not sure if it will allow it to be posted.

javascript:(function()%20{%20function%20R(a){ona%20=%20%22on%22+a;%20if(window.addEventListener)%20window.addEventListener(a,%20function%20(e)%20{%20for(var%20n=e.originalTarget;%20n;%20n=n.parentNode)%20n[ona]=null;%20},%20true);%20window[ona]=null;%20document[ona]=null;%20if(document.body)%20document.body[ona]=null;%20}%20R(%22contextmenu%22);%20R(%22click%22);%20R(%22mousedown%22);%20R(%22mouseup%22);%20})()

I also have more that I found at this website
https://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/

I just created a folder on my bookmarks toolbar, and just dragged the bookmarklets that I wanted into it. Some of them can be extremely handy.

By: Joyce

Joyce — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 19:57:28 +0000

Disabling right click sends the message, “We think you’re too stupid to figure out how to get access to our images and source code.” That’s all that does. If anyone doesn’t want stuff “stolen” then they need to never put it on the internet to begin with. Disabling right click is the silliest thing since pet rocks.

By: Syahid A

Syahid A — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 13:07:28 +0000

Sweet! I don’t know that we can do that in FF!

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 05:06:27 +0000

Thanks for the tip. Mine was already properly adjusted through the use of the Configuration Mania add-on.

How about preventing websites from blocking access to the clipboard?

By: lilsting10

lilsting10 — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 14:06:49 +0000

SWEET! I hate websites that resize your brower windows, I never even realised that option was built into FF3. Thank you.

By: Bailey

Bailey — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 01:18:32 +0000

And for those of us who want to keep our customized Google Docs context menu, there’s a simple solution. Get Firebug for Firefox and use it to delete the right click script on your computer’s local copy. Alternatively (and I prefer), you can Adblock the script (if it’s external) that has the right click disbaling function. (Hey Mozilla, here something to add to FF 3.1…Be able to specify advanced JS options individually for each site, yet still have the global options!)

By: Damian

Damian — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 18:49:02 +0000

It also really messes up disabled peoples accessibility add ons and / or special browsers. I will let my disabled user groups know about this – another excuse to get everyone onto firefox

By: Big Dan

Big Dan — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 13:07:11 +0000

I cannot tell you how many times I've had that annoyance come up. Not that I'm going around the net stealing page source or images. I have Hyperwords installed and need my right click menu to work. What always irks me is it in no way protects the source in Firefox Ctrl + U brings up the source in a new window, additionally Ctrl + F (find) brings up a search box to find what you want in the source. Similar functionaliy is available in every browser. Really the right click disable scripts do nothing but annoy technically adept users.