Making Firefox's right-click not suck with about:config
3 hours ago
- #Customization
- #MacOS
- #Firefox
- Firefox on MacOS has an overly cluttered right-click context menu with 26 options, including useless greyed-out items, dividers, and submenus.
- Many context menu items like 'Ask an AI Chatbot' and 'Copy Clean Link' are unnecessary and cannot be easily disabled.
- The 'Inspect Accessibility Properties' button appears after opening DevTools once, with no clear way to remove it.
- Several about:config settings can disable unwanted menu items, such as browser.translations.select.enable (removes 'Translate Selection') and devtools.accessibility.enabled (removes 'Inspect Accessibility Properties').
- Disabling features like screenshots, text fragments, and link stripping removes associated context menu buttons.
- Some buttons like 'Bookmark Link…' and 'Save Link As…' cannot be removed via about:config and require userChrome.css customization.
- Spellcheck and language options in forms cannot be easily removed without disabling useful features.
- Firefox lacks an intuitive way for new users to customize the context menu, unlike the 'Customize Toolbar' feature.