289696 - feature request: possibility to disable javascript right mouse click events

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Settings UI, enhancement)

Description

[andre liebe]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050327 Firefox/1.0.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050327 Firefox/1.0.2

I'm looking for an option to disable the right mouse click events for javascript
(like "hide the status bar" or "change images" and so on) 

->preferences->web features->Enable Javascript->Advanced

that screws up my mouse gestures on some pages with javascript prohibiting right
mouse events for copyright protection

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
visit a page with mentioned javascript right mouse click event
Actual Results:  
javascript blocks my mouse gestures (right mouse button)

Expected Results:  
prohibit javascript from get these mouse events

Comment 1

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

type about:config in the locationbar
type dom.event.contextmenu.enabled in the input
change the value to false by leftclicking twice on it

This is unlikely to ever go to into options by default.

You can use the extension JSoptions at
http://www.blueprintit.co.uk/~dave/web/firefox/jsoptions/index.html

WONT ?

Comment 2

[zug_treno]

But I believe that in Firefox 1.0.2 this option can still be changed with
"Disable or replace context menus" in the advanced Javascript options.

Comment 3

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

(In reply to comment #2)
> But I believe that in Firefox 1.0.2 this option can still be changed with
> "Disable or replace context menus" in the advanced Javascript options.
Yes, and it was removed from  Options because the avg user hasn't got a clue
what it means

Comment 4

[Simon Ruggier]

(In reply to comment #3)
> (In reply to comment #2)
> > But I believe that in Firefox 1.0.2 this option can still be changed with
> > "Disable or replace context menus" in the advanced Javascript options.
> Yes, and it was removed from  Options because the avg user hasn't got a clue
> what it means
> 

It would be nice if it were put back in, I liked having the freedom to disable
only the javascript annoyances that **** me off... alternatively, Firefox should
notify whenever it disables the functionality of any kind of javascript on a
page, in a very unobtrusive way, perhaps in the status bar.  I might file a bug
for this..

Comment 5

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

(In reply to comment #4)
Read comment #1

-> WONTFIX

Comment 6

[Jo Hermans]

*** Bug 298016 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7

[Martin]

Setting
dom.event.contextment.enable
to "false" doesn't work me with Firefox 1.0.4 and everything in Advanced
javaScript Options is un-selected.

This page still blocks right click
http://www.lemon-monkey.com/gallery/

Comment 8

[andre liebe]

try http://roachfiend.com/archives/2005/03/03/allow-right-click/

it works great

Comment 9

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

sorry for bugspam, long-overdue mass reassign of ancient QA contact bugs,
filter on "beltznerLovesGoats" to get rid of this mass change