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[PSA] Firefox has this built in already: Hold Shift while right-clicking. Been a while since I tested on a fresh profile, but I don’t believe this requires any preference tweaking or about:config stuff.
that's a great thing to know! thanks. I wish there was a setting for "right click works, hold shift key for wanky behavior"
The vast majority of websites that disable it, they're actually doing it to provide additional functionality which would be lost otherwise. Seems like using a sledgehammer to snap a button.
I remember disabling right click on a geocities site I built for my friends to show off their hand-drawn comics. Another guy in our 4th grade class was rehosting our comics on his geocities so I disabled right click.
The vast majority of websites that disable it, they're actually doing it to provide additional functionality which would be lost otherwise. Seems like using a sledgehammer to snap a button.
I have no clue what websites you are visiting, but the ones I have used typically either do it to disable/customize copy/paste or use it to track your actions. They often make too many assumptions about the browser in general.
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[PSA] Firefox has this built in already: Hold Shift while right-clicking. Been a while since I tested on a fresh profile, but I don’t believe this requires any preference tweaking or about:config stuff.
Then there's a second option called dom.event.contextmenu.shift_suppresses_event which defaults to true and does what you said: Simple right click opens the page menu and shift + right click don't send the page the event at all and instead opens the browser's menu.
How about we just stop allowing this and call it what it is - disabling functionality of my system without my explicit permission - and start charging these site operators with CFAA violations.
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I have no clue what websites you are visiting, but the ones I have used typically either do it to disable/customize copy/paste or use it to track your actions. They often make too many assumptions about the browser in general.
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