Show HN: Enable right click and copy on websites that disabled it

71 pointsposted a year ago
by chernikovalexey
(chromewebstore.google.com)

35 Comments

smitelli

a year ago

[PSA] Firefox has this built in already: Hold Shift while right-clicking. Been a while since I tested on a fresh profile, but I don’t believe this requires any preference tweaking or about:config stuff.

danillonunes

a year ago

There's a about:config setting called dom.event.contextmenu.enabled defaulting to true, when you change to false you don't need to hold shift, it will always open the browser context menu (and in most cases still do the page behavior of showing the web app context menu or whatever, you can then press esc to close the browser's menu but it may also close the page menu depending on how they implemented it).

Then there's a second option called dom.event.contextmenu.shift_suppresses_event which defaults to true and does what you said: Simple right click opens the page menu and shift + right click don't send the page the event at all and instead opens the browser's menu.

fsckboy

a year ago

that's a great thing to know! thanks.

I wish there was a setting for "right click works, hold shift key for wanky behavior"

squigz

a year ago

This is still default behavior

musicale

a year ago

I'd like to see this feature in all browsers.

rendaw

a year ago

Is there something similar for ctrl+f?

rendaw

a year ago

Or to force pasting in text boxes?

gcanyon

a year ago

I assume there's something similar for Safari on Mac, but I don't know.

When I run into a site that doesn't want to let me select/copy text, I screen shot the page -- in Photos on iOS, and in Preview on MacOS, selecting text out of an image generally works great. Just tap and hold a moment on iOS, or hover a moment on MacOS, and then drag/click-drag to select.

mbirth

a year ago

It’s called StopTheMadness and has lots more configuration options to “fix” other weird behaviours.

gcanyon

a year ago

Ooh, I have stop the madness. I’ll have to check for that option. Thanks!

willi59549879

a year ago

There are also blogs that don't allow zooming. Technical blogs with visualisations are almost not readable on mobile

IshKebab

a year ago

You can force zooming to be allowed in the accessibility settings, at least on Chrome mobile.

thih9

a year ago

Workaround: take a screenshot, zoom in.

wildzzz

a year ago

I remember disabling right click on a geocities site I built for my friends to show off their hand-drawn comics. Another guy in our 4th grade class was rehosting our comics on his geocities so I disabled right click.

wildzzz

a year ago

"Inspect Element" didn't exist at the time so it worked out great.

creer

a year ago

How did that work out?

dimitri-vs

a year ago

Wonder if this works on copy/download protected Google Docs. They had some pretty interesting protections, but could still be circumvented by looking at page source.

jboogie77

a year ago

Wondering the same thing for Google sheets

stevenicr

a year ago

IF this can change the settings for tap/right click -> save video files, people may actually use better file formats than gifs one day.

BigBalli

a year ago

The vast majority of websites that disable it, they're actually doing it to provide additional functionality which would be lost otherwise. Seems like using a sledgehammer to snap a button.

eek2121

a year ago

I have no clue what websites you are visiting, but the ones I have used typically either do it to disable/customize copy/paste or use it to track your actions. They often make too many assumptions about the browser in general.

Lerc

a year ago

Left button draw, Right button erase

Left button rotate, Right button pan

Left button gun, Right button grenade.

user

a year ago

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musicale

a year ago

Web pages are intended to be editable. I wish popular browsers had an easy user-facing way to invoke

    document.designMode = 'on'

umbra07

a year ago

does anyone know of a solution for websites that hijack your ctrl-LMB (which is supposed to open the link you just clicked in a new tab)?

someoldgit

a year ago

Some sites block the search option on the rt-clk menu when a word or phrase is selected.

lightedman

a year ago

How about we just stop allowing this and call it what it is - disabling functionality of my system without my explicit permission - and start charging these site operators with CFAA violations.

SoftTalker

a year ago

Or perhaps ADA violations. Breaking browser behavior could be argued as an unreasonable obstruction for disabled users.

garciansmith

a year ago

How is this different than other extensions that enable right clicking? There are certainly a few for Firefox (I use "Allow Right-Click").

user

a year ago

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akhileshwar09

a year ago

yea i knew this and i think we can also do the same thing in MAC os .