Type in about:config into the URL bar in your FireFox browser and press enter.Step 2. Scroll down until you see the following option in the list: signed.applets.codebaseprincipalsupport Double click that option and it will turn bold indicating that it is now on.Step 3. Go back to your HTML editing control and refresh the screen.Select the Remember this decision option and click Allow.
Step 4. Close all your FireFox browser windows and restart the browser. Youre HTML control should now have all the options enabled in FireFox. Its a practice we hope goes away, but in the meantime, its not too hard to get around those restrictions. But disabling the context menu in your browser also deprives you of a lot of other tools. While you can take the nuclear option and just disable JavaScript in your browser, that limits the functionality of a lot of sites that use JavaScript to deliver useful features. Its just a bit of JavaScript that resets the context menu value for a page. When viewing a page with right-click disabled, you can just type or paste this code into your address bar and hit Enter. Select the code above and drag it to your browsers toolbar (or wherever you store bookmarks). Rename it something that makes sense to you, but leave the code intact for the URL. It also enables text selection and copying on sites that have disabled those functions, and even removes text that web sites inject into the text you copy (such as Read More at). Of course, there are more comprehensive script blocking extensions available, such as NoScript (Firefox) and ScriptSafe (Chrome). Both are worth looking into for a little added peace of mind, but note that they can be problematic on sites that use scripts for useful features. He has more than 30 years of experience in the computer industry and over 20 years as a technical writer and editor. Hes written hundreds of articles for How-To Geek and edited thousands. Hes authored or co-authored over 30 computer-related books in more than a dozen languages for publishers like Microsoft Press, OReilly, and OsborneMcGraw-Hill. Hes also written hundreds of white papers, articles, user manuals, and courseware over the years. Since we launched in 2006, our articles have been read more than 1 billion times.
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