Web sites disabling right click options in Firefox.

I use mouse gestures 1.5.2 in Firefox 2.0, mostly for navigating (page back,
forward, close). I have noticed more & more web sites seem to be blocking
all right click functions ("this function is disabled"). I presume that's
to prevent image copying, not that there aren't other ways of accomplishing
that. Something about a distant site being able to tell my browser what
options I have just kinda rubs me the wrong way. I mean, whose
computer/browser is this, their's or MINE?!? I assume this is a Java thing.
Anyway to prevent such blocking?

Tools>>Options>>Content

Click the Advanced button for javascript. Uncheck the box for Disable or
change Context menus

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by dar****

Tools>>Options>>Content

Click the Advanced button for javascript. Uncheck the box for Disable or
change Context menus

---

Thanks for the reply. Unchecked all Java options in that dialogue, some
paget still will not allow ANY right clicks.

I wonder if others have the same experience?

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Floyd

Thanks for the reply. Unchecked all Java options in that dialogue, some
paget still will not allow ANY right clicks.

I wonder if others have the same experience?

---

What happens for me there is quite common. I get an error warning me
that right click is disabled. If I click OK, the error disappears, and
the context menu appears anyway.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by dar****

What happens for me there is quite common. I get an error warning me
that right click is disabled. If I click OK, the error disappears, and
the context menu appears anyway.

---

Right. That website has some javascript code like this:

when user attempts right click:
1. disable context menu
2. popup message explaining error

We told Firefox to ignore #1, but it will still pop up the message.
Unless you disable all javascript (which I tried and it worked). But
you don't want to do that since other javascript is very useful.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by shahid khan

Right. That website has some javascript code like this:

when user attempts right click:
1. disable context menu
2. popup message explaining error

We told Firefox to ignore #1, but it will still pop up the message.
Unless you disable all javascript (which I tried and it worked). But
you don't want to do that since other javascript is very useful.

---

Indeed. Just click through the error, and the context menu becomes
available.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by dar****

Indeed. Just click through the error, and the context menu becomes
available.

---

Pretty academic I suppose, but maybe it's a function of my having mouse
gestures. With the java options disabled, the 1st right click produces the
error box & the context menu simultaneously. I can copy, enlarge (also have
zoom) etc. Subsequent right clicks produce only the context menu; clicking
yes at that point produces a "red pen" (from mouse gestures) I can draw all
over the page w/no result.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Floyd

Pretty academic I suppose, but maybe it's a function of my having mouse
gestures. With the java options disabled, the 1st right click produces the
error box & the context menu simultaneously. I can copy, enlarge (also have
zoom) etc. Subsequent right clicks produce only the context menu; clicking
yes at that point produces a "red pen" (from mouse gestures) I can draw all
over the page w/no result.

---

I don't use mouse gestures. Try disabling it, and test. If it works
when disabled, all I can suggest it contacting the creator of the extension.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by dar****

I don't use mouse gestures. Try disabling it, and test. If it works
when disabled, all I can suggest it contacting the creator of the extension.

---

I have both Java and Javascript enabled and got the full range of
options when I right clicked. I'm not running mouse gestures though.:rolleyes: