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Why can't I use right click menu in Alert Dialog?

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Why can't I use right click menu in Alert Dialog? I select the text in an alert dialog but when I press right click the menu will not show up. I works in Chrome. Why not in Firefox? Any way to have it work?

Why can't I use right click menu in Alert Dialog? I select the text in an alert dialog but when I press right click the menu will not show up. I works in Chrome. Why not in Firefox? Any way to have it work?

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Do you mean a

window.alert('Some text');

dialog?

You can press Ctrl+c to copy the selected text.

I don't think there are any other applicable actions that would appear on a menu. What did you have in mind?


Your Firefox identified itself as version 81, while the current release is version 87. Are you holding off on updating for a specific reason?

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I mean <input type="button" onclick="alert()"> And, yes Ctrl+C is working. But I am missing the right click menu in FireFox.

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Chaperon said

I am missing the right click menu in FireFox.

Agreed, there is no right-click context menu. However, the only thing I can think of that would be applicable from the menu is Copy, and maybe Select All.

There are keyboard shortcuts for those, so I suspect enabling a menu would be a low priority (that's a guess, it's not my decision).

What the dialog needs is a button like "Close this tab, I'm annoyed by all these alerts" but I'm not sure that would fit. ;-)

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Yes, for the Copy. I often use a website which shares information via Alert Dialog which I need to copy and use in another application. And it is (would be) much more convinient and faster in my case if I had right click menu (then double/triple clicking to select text and) Copy because I would need one hand only for this task, while I could prepare my other hand to press Alt+Tab to switch to the other application (without repositioning hand/fingers from Ctrl+C). Thank you for your comments anyway!

Athraithe ag Chaperon ar

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Each site might be different, but Ctrl+A Ctrl+C works for me, which is not too bad. Of course, this could by why my wrists and arms hurt so much lately!

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How can I submit a suggession to the developers? Maybe they consider implement it. I cannot be the only one who is missing this option.

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Réiteach Roghnaithe

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