If you’re a Firefox user, you may have noticed that some websites are constantly trying to mess with your right-click menu. This can be really annoying, especially if you’re trying to do something important like open a new tab or close a window. To disable these websites from messing with your right-click menu, follow these steps:
- Open Firefox and click on the Firefox button in the top left corner of the screen.
- Select “Options” from the main menu and then “Privacy”.
- In the “Privacy” section, select “Block pop-ups and other intrusive ads”.
- Click on the “Add” button next to “Block pop-ups and other intrusive ads”. This will add this website to your list of blocked sites.
Why do they do this? Usually it’s a misguided attempt to keep people from viewing the source of their pages or stealing their images, but all they really do is end up annoying their readers into never coming back. Ever.
Hint: it doesn’t really stop anybody from stealing. It’s the tech equivalent of searching 85-year old grandmothers on airplanes for knitting needles. If you do it on your pages, stop it now.
Disabling Annoying Context Menu Javascript Nonsense
Open up the Tools \ Options panel, and then go to the Content “tab” on the top. You’ll see three buttons on the right-hand side, choose the one that says “Advanced”.
From this dialog you can uncheck the option for “Disable or replace context menus”. Note: If you also want to prevent websites from resizing your browser window, you can uncheck “Move or resize existing windows” while you are at it.
And now your context menu will work perfectly fine on the page.
It should be noted that disabling this setting will prevent customized context menus from working on sites like Google Docs… so it’s a toss-up on which feature you like more.
