Odd complaint but interesting list of about:config options! I must be in the tiny minority that has actually _used_ all of these right-click menu items at one time or another.

Personally, I think the Firefox browser right-click options are one of the more useful right-click menus. The one on the Apple OS is a better example of excessive and worthless.

There are actually eight dividers.

The improvement that could be made is to reorganize the menu so that entries are grouped in "Image", "Link", "Text", "Page" and "Development" sections, which could either be submenus or titled sections depending on screen size and user preferences

I wish they had an always up to date guide on what each about:config option does.

All those items in the context menu are one of the reasons that context menus are so good. Ideally you never need to go to the menu bar for much of anything because the right menu item is right there in the context menu where your cursor is already aiming.

A while back I wanted more menu options with Firefox so I made an extension [1]. Basically when you highlight a word or a sentence on a page a menu popups up with some options like to copy, search, or lookup on Google maps. Or whatever option you want. I use it often and find it useful.

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/popup-tooltip...

Does uBlock Origin do something like this by default? I noticed that my right-click menu looks completely sane; almost identical to the end, clean result. But I've never done this particular config cleanup before.

I wonder when was the last time any user used the "Email image" feature.

Long ago, I culled some items from the context menu via userChrome.css.

1. In about:config, turn pref toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets on.

2. Create chrome/userChrome.css in your profile directory (which you can find from about:support).

3. Open the Browser Toolbox with Ctrl+Alt+Shift+I or ≡ → More tools → Browser Toolbox or Tools → Browser Tools → Browser Toolbox or some such thing. This is dev tools for the browser.

4. In the Inspector tab, search #contentAreaContextMenu to navigate to the <menupopup id="contentAreaContextMenu" …> element.

5. Look through its children. Decide which ones you don’t want, then kill them in CSS.

From my userChrome.css (I think this must be something like a decade old because I started typing curly quotes somewhere around then):

  /* I don't want *two* items for Inspect, just the one main one please. */
  #context-inspect-a11y,
  /* I'm happy to use Ctrl+Shift+S; I don't need a context menu item for it. */
  #context-take-screenshot,
  #context-sep-screenshots,
  /* I don't use Firefox's password manager. */
  #fill-login,
  #fill-login-generated-password,
  #manage-saved-logins,
  #passwordmgr-items-separator {
      display: none;
  }

The article takes the approach of disabling features (e.g. devtools.accessibility.enabled). I take the approach of leaving the features enabled (I want the accessibility stuff!) and just removing the specific context menu item that I found annoying.

(… and I see at the end of the article that this approach is what the next post is to be about. Heh. Posted before reading to the end. Probably would still have posted roughly the same thing.)