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HOW TO stop FireFox bug- right click opppression

It's not better with the Butterfly it seems. Update: it's a Firefox thing, stop sending this in :-] Msn.com updated to filter mouse click events such that right-clicking functionality is only provided by IE. Firefox user's attempt to open links in another tab find themselves SOL as a right click attempt simply behaves as a left click thereby proceeding to the Msn site in the current window. This is completely uncalled for. To fix this- go to msn.com, open adblock, block the script http://hp.msn.com/scr/home/msnmoz1021.js, problem solved. Link.

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Posted by: pmpski_1 on June 29, 2005 at 10:30 AM

This is a bug in Firefox. Please don't become another Slashdot. Check out the update in this article:

http://htmlfixit.com/?p=727

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Posted by: RevRagnarok on June 29, 2005 at 7:48 PM

"worksforme" ;)

Anyway, if they actually did try to stop you with Javascript, I read somewhere (and have it in my bookmark toolbar) that you can set a bookmark named "Enable Context Menu" (or similar) and have it point tojavascript:void(document.oncontextmenu=null)

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