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Disable Firefox context menu?

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bruyere.alexandre
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Basically.

I see a lot of options on how to disable Javascript context menus on sites, for purpose.

I want the opposite - certain sites, most notably Google Workspace and Nextcloud, have a very useful Javascript context menu for things like tweaking format or renaming files.

But when I right-click in Firefox, the browser's own context menu pops up and overlaps with the site's, making it nearly unusable. (Pressing escape to dismiss the menu has a 50% chance of also dismissing the site's)

Any way to disable the context menu? Bonus points if it can be done on a per-site basis.

Basically. I see a lot of options on how to disable Javascript context menus on sites, for purpose. I want the opposite - certain sites, most notably Google Workspace and Nextcloud, have a very useful Javascript context menu for things like tweaking format or renaming files. But when I right-click in Firefox, the browser's own context menu pops up and overlaps with the site's, making it nearly unusable. (Pressing escape to dismiss the menu has a 50% chance of also dismissing the site's) Any way to disable the context menu? Bonus points if it can be done on a per-site basis.

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cor-el
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You can control this via dom.event.contextmenu.enabled on the about:config page. Setting this to true (default) should give you the website context menu, if necessary you can hold the Shift key to get the Firefox context menu.