326650 - Copy URI blocked by script though in status bar

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, enhancement)

Description

[jonathan chetwynd]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1

The user should be able to copy and paste URIs, whatever and wherever.

However script-kidies try to stop this being easy, and requently one can't right click or ctrl-click to copy URIs. 

This enhancement request would ensure that copy URI was always available

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. open URI
2. tab or mouseover link
3. right click or ctrl-click to copy any link

Actual Results:  
copy disabled, dialogue not displayed

Expected Results:  
dialogue should present opportunity to copy URI

Comment 1

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

You can enable the context menus in Tools > Options > Contents > Javascript > Advanced

Comment 2

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

Confirming, once you stop javascript from being able to disable context menus you should have no problems.

Comment 3

[jonathan chetwynd]

Should the default be the other way around? ie:
deselect: preferences, enable javascript, advanced, disable context menus

Is there a good reason why one should want author scripts to be able to disable context menus, ie not just to disable them in the browser or user agent...


and even if there is, is it really sufficiently important to warrant this default behaviour?

thanks for your help already ~:"