1133368 - right click menu wont show services in osx

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 660452

(Firefox :: Menus, defect)

Description

[alessandro]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.10; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/38.0
Build ID: 20150215030238

Steps to reproduce:

firefox wont stop disappointing me!!!!!!!
why do the hell right click menu wont show osx services?????????????
is that hard!!!!!!!!!???????????????

Comment 1

[David Lawrence [:dkl]]

Mistakenly filed against Firefox 38 and should be instead 38 Branch. Sorry for the spam. dkl

Comment 2

[Michaelian Ennis]

As of 38.5.2 the OS X services menu is still not present.  The services menu is the natural way many people attach custom tools to their environment so that text selected in the browser can be piped into the tool to various ends.   Some third party tools provide tools through this interface and some subset of these provide firefox add ons but not all of them.  

If it isn't too much trouble to add either a way to provide a link in the firefox context menu or explanation of how to manually add the services menus this would be much appreciated.

Comment 3

[Michaelian Ennis]

Attachment: Other

Comment 4

[Michaelian Ennis]

Attachment: Firefox

Comment 5

[YF (Yang)]

Dupe of bug 104331?

Comment 7

[Michaelian Ennis]

I don't think this is a duplicate.  I think this is related.   bug 104331 is (or has become) about receiving urls through services from other applications.  I want to send from firefox into services to process my selection. In my attachment "other" I am sending the text "right click menu" to another service.  For instance Evernote which you see there.  Now I know there is a plugin for Evernote but OS X users build service handlers to work in a variety of ways.  

One service I wrote takes the text selected in the browser and surrounds it with tags for marking up code. This particular example obviously only works in an editable field. Another finds all the numbers in the selection adds them together and copies that data into the clipboard. 

The key point is that these services are are available in most applications so you can write it once and use it across many applications.

Comment 8

[Graham Perrin]

Please consider reopening this bug report. 

I agree that the assessment of duplication was wrong in this case; more generally there seems to be a long history of confusion about the abilities of Firefox to work with Services. 

http://stackoverflow.com/a/35254053/38108 describes Firefox 44.0 on OS X 10.9.5 Mavericks failing to present 'Services' in a contextual menu; no 'Look Up' for integration with Dictionary; and so on.

Comment 9

[Brett Zamir]

I've added bug 1470624 since this was mistakenly filed as a dupe.