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Posted by mmsc 5 hours ago

Making Firefox's right-click not suck with about:config(joshua.hu)
217 points | 156 commentspage 3
edelind 1 hour ago|
I don't know, I am quite a power user of some stuff he removed. Especially Services! that is a gem in itself if you know how to use it.
LikeBeans 3 hours ago||
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...

1718627440 2 hours ago|
> Basically when you highlight a word or a sentence on a page a menu popups up with some options like to copy, search

Huh, beside Google Maps, that's what the default context menu does in Firefox?

LikeBeans 2 hours ago||
Yeah the Google Maps was my primary goal. But I was also thinking a person can add other options. For example different search engines. Or maybe your favorite AI agent search.
SkySkimmer 3 hours ago||
>right-clicking an image while some text on the page is highlighted (to show as many buttons as possible)

Actually an image which is also a link for extra buttons (typical wikipedia image AFAICT)

jez 3 hours ago||
Still the only thing I miss about the Firefox right-click context menu coming from Chrome is that Firefox doesn't have a "Look up '<selection>'" in the menu on macOS, to look up in the macOS dictionary, for looking up words I don't know.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1116391

adamtaylor_13 2 hours ago||
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.
olivia-banks 4 hours ago||
I've been wondering about the Polish thing. On the screenshot at the top of the page, it reads "Translate Selection to Polish," and I initially thought this might just be something gleaned from the author's locale, but the tld is .hu, and I recall seeing "Polish" as the default "international" language option on a number of services (such as Google Translate).

Is there a technical reason for this that Polish is defaulted to more often than not? Or is this just a me thing.

mmsc 4 hours ago|
It's gleaned from my locale. .hu is irrelevant; my alternative keyboard on my system is Polish
olivia-banks 3 hours ago||
Interesting. I’ve never been to Poland and yet Polish the default second option in a ton of places for me. No clue why.
elxr 2 hours ago||
In a way, this shows why I generally love using webapps over desktop apps. The level of quick customizability for something as basic as a right-click is impressive.

Love that firefox offers so much control, despite the questionable defaults.

CobrastanJorji 3 hours ago||
> Removes the “Translate Selection” button from the right-click menu.

I don't want the Translate button to NEVER be there. I want it to be there if and only if the selection is not in English.

kps 2 hours ago|
How would it know?
Zopieux 9 minutes ago||
Have you heard of machine learning?
Krssst 3 hours ago||
The article talks of other menu entries but the screenshot of the menu literally shows the "Remove AI chatbot" option, why not just click that instead of hunting for it in about:config?
kemayo 3 hours ago|
As an aside, it does seem like a bit of a bad sign for a feature that you know up-front that it'll be so polarizing that you need to have an always-visible top-level "hide this forever!" button.
Snortibartfast 4 hours ago|
Ironically, the only[1] right-click option I used was changed into something more cumbersome: "open image" which was changed to "open image in new tab".

[1] I exaggerate a bit, sometimes I use uBlock Origin's "block element".

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