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Bug 303287 - disable right-click access to websites
disable right-click access to websites
Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE
Product: epiphany
Classification: Core
Component: Backend
git master
Other Linux
: Normal normal
: ---
Assigned To: Xan Lopez
Epiphany Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks: 340583 755524
 
 
Reported: 2005-05-06 18:45 UTC by Christian Persch
Modified: 2016-04-27 17:36 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Description Christian Persch 2005-05-06 18:45:27 UTC 
We might want to disallow web pages any access to right-clicks
(onmousedown/up/click), because they abuse it to disable our context menu. We
can do this by installing a capture listener and doing
PreventDefault/StopPropagation if it's a right-click.
Comment 1 Olav Vitters 2005-05-06 21:56:16 UTC 
See also https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=86193. Maybe that can be
used / is of help?
Comment 2 Wouter Bolsterlee (uws) 2006-03-05 15:57:04 UTC 
Do you know of any website that triggers the bug?
Comment 3 Corey Burger 2006-03-20 06:57:36 UTC 
http://www.formula1.com/ used to/may still. Also see
https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/23632
Comment 4 Fabio Durán Verdugo 2011-08-24 03:06:00 UTC 
Is the bug still relevant in epiphany 3.0 ?
Comment 5 Akhil Laddha 2011-10-07 05:09:04 UTC 
Christian, ping
Comment 6 Reinout van Schouwen 2011-10-10 19:31:08 UTC 
(In reply to comment #5)
> Christian, ping

Disabling context menu access to web sites would go against bug 340583. We probably need a way to selectively disable context menu access for some websites but not for others.
Comment 7 Tobias Mueller 2012-02-01 21:51:11 UTC 
So based on comment #6, I'm setting this to NEW.
Comment 8 Tobias Endrigkeit 2012-10-20 15:56:31 UTC 
Will this bug be resolved or not? Therefore "Needinfo" and moved to Backend:Webkit
Comment 9 Reinout van Schouwen 2012-10-29 21:49:41 UTC 
Currently with HTML5 videos on youtube I notice two context menus popping up at the same time.
Comment 10 André Klapper 2012-10-29 22:45:53 UTC 
I wouldn't use NEEDINFO to force a decision. :)
Comment 11 Michael Catanzaro 2016-02-28 17:07:39 UTC 
So, what's the status of this? It seems, at least on YouTube videos, first click you get YouTube's context menu, second click you get Epiphany's context menu which lets you download the video (which is good enough IMO), and subsequent clicks you get only Inspect Element (which is definitely broken)....
Comment 12 Michael Catanzaro 2016-04-27 17:36:38 UTC 
Closing this bug as no further information has been provided.