Show HN: Enable right click and copy on websites that disabled it (opens in new tab)

There's a about:config setting called dom.event.contextmenu.enabled defaulting to true, when you change to false you don't need to hold shift, it will always open the browser context menu (and in most cases still do the page behavior of showing the web app context menu or whatever, you can then press esc to close the browser's menu but it may also close the page menu depending on how they implemented it).

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.

Thanks for the PSA! I have relied on the "Allow Right-Click" extension for a while now.

https://webextension.org/listing/allow-right-click.html https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/re-enable-rig...

that's a great thing to know! thanks.

I wish there was a setting for "right click works, hold shift key for wanky behavior"

This is still default behavior

I'd like to see this feature in all browsers.

Is there something similar for ctrl+f?

Good argument for shift-right-click being standardized to always bring up the browser menu, as does in firefox.

It’s called StopTheMadness and has lots more configuration options to “fix” other weird behaviours.

You can force zooming to be allowed in the accessibility settings, at least on Chrome mobile.

Workaround: take a screenshot, zoom in.

"Inspect Element" didn't exist at the time so it worked out great.

How did that work out?

Wondering the same thing for Google sheets

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.

Or perhaps ADA violations. Breaking browser behavior could be argued as an unreasonable obstruction for disabled users.