Comments on: This JavaScript alert box is admissible in court

by: Coderer

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 05:25:29 +0000

I would love to see Firefox add a whitelist for that "replace context menus" toggle -- I do not want e.g. Ebay to be allowed to handle right clicks at all, but if I set that option it also prevents Google Maps from being able to give me a custom context menu.

by: Stark

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 04:52:11 +0000

Awww...they changed the message to a simple copyright notice. I guess e-bay didn't find it amusing having their name invoked for such stupidity.

by: oddparity

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:02:47 +0000

I recently ran into this as well, so here's how to switch off JavaScript right-click menu overrides in Firefox: Tools -> Options -> Content -> Advanced (Next to "Enable JavaScript") -> Untick "Disable or replace context menus"

by: Red October

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 18:59:55 +0000

In my experience you can more or less defeat those annoying little boxes by hitting "Escape" a fraction of a second befoe another right click, but that one in particular seems immune... I've always pondered at the massive stupidity of those little things, even before I knew how to bypass them (by methods as crude as clicking quickly or sophisticated as disabling javascript), I would save images I wanted by using "Print Screen" commands and easily cropping the desired image out and saving it.

by: Daniel Rutter

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 10:48:04 +0000

Yeah, that depends on how the browser and the brillant code interact. Classically, you could do something like click the right button again before cancelling the alert box and get the menu when you released it for the second time. I haven't figured out how to make this example do something like that, on (my particular config of) Firefox, Chrome or IE6. I did just notice that after you get two alerts, Chrome gives you a neat option to "Prevent this page from creating additional dialogs". If you tick the box the alerts go away, but you still don't get a right-click menu.

by: Joseph

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 09:30:27 +0000

I don't know if it's just how these things work now (haven't seen one for a while), or something I've managed to do with my FF settings. But it gains some added hilarity from the fact that the right-click menu still appears after I close the "warning" box.

by: acidk

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 23:41:00 +0000

Opera isn't immune so much as its default behavior is to not "allow scripts to detect context menu events". Enable that under right click>edit site preferences>Scripting. In short javascript based stuff can't detect right clicks under default settings.

I found this out while trying to get webui of utorrent to work a while back.

by: Chazzozz

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 22:01:11 +0000

Darn...Opera seems to be immune to this kind of ~~idiot BS stupidity~~ 'copy protection'. GASP! Maybe that means Opera is a hacker tool!