Sometimes it is just irritating when a web site uses javascript to disable your right-click, attempting to block you to access the context menu. Tech-Recipes has a good tips on re-enabling the right-click context menu on this situation. You can a javascript to re-enable it:
When visiting the offending website, type the following into the URL bar of your browser:
javascript:void(document.oncontextmenu=null)
Re-Enable Right-Click When Web Pages Turn It Off – [Tech-Recipes]
Thanks for passing this on. It’s always seemed to be an absurd control as i can think of a dozen ways one could steal the content from such a page, but what i really want to do is use the “open in new tab” option of my browser.
er… that’s “tech recipes”, not receipts…
@Scott: Thanks for spotting this. Updated!
Thanks for the link to our recipe. I have followed you forever through your RSS feed. Love your site.
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xD
I wrote a greasemonkey script to make this a little easier:
http://forrestledbetter.com/2007/06/06/enable-right-click/
This doesn’t work on this site, not does the holding rt-click thing:
http://www.pakhomov.com/seals.html
thanks it works, so the other problem is how to enable the cursor and text selection on web pages that disables it.. :)
Hang on… I don’t get how to do that.
it does not work.