[Solved] Auto drop context menu when double clicking text?

[petrus]

I just switched from Opera, where if you double click on some text, it is not just highlighted
but the context menu also drops automatically, without the user having to right click by hand.

That's the request... Thanks & first post!

Edit: Solution found... and there are even two ways to get this exact behavior:

1. With the "DoubleClick ContextMenu" Opera like double click extension
2. Or by just setting "ui.click_hold_context_menus" in "about:config" to "true"

Big thanks to Blacklab for both tips!

[Moonchild]

Thanks for offering a suggestion, but that's not something that's going to be implemented.

Pale Moon responds not only to double-click, but also to triple-click, for example; it would interfere with that.
Also, opening a context menu without giving the normal command to do so (either context-button on the keyboard or right-clicking) makes for ambiguity in controls that I'm avoiding where I can. Double-click to select a word, triple-click to select a line/paragraph, then right-click to perform context actions with the mouse or a key combination to perform tasks with the selected text is the design here.

In short: different product, different controls.

[petrus]

Ok that makes sense. Also, is this something hard-coded or can it be done, adding one contentAreaContextMenu somewhere...

[Moonchild]

You should be able to do this through an add-on (either existing or by creating a new one). You may want to have a look through https://addons.mozilla.org/

[Blacklab]

DoubleClick ContextMenu 1.0 - was an "Opera like double click context menu" Add-on but seems long since abandoned?

BTW - A curious hangover from Netscape days in about:config - see mozillaZine's KB: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Ui.click_hold_context_menus
(The preference "ui.click_hold_context_menus" already exists set to "false" (default). Set to "true" the context menu appears on "click + hold")

[petrus]

Thanks Blacklab, the extension may be abandoned but it does still work! and so does the command.

[petrus]

>Thanks for offering a suggestion, but that's not something that's going to be implemented.

What about just putting "ui.click_hold_context_menus" into the Commander/Advanced options?
It's right there ripe for the picking, it extends usability and replaces one extension, win win win.

Let's give this "hangover from the Netscape days" it's proper due!

And in combination with "Context Search X" I'm able to completely replicate my context menu from Opera:


Edit: With Context Search X one can just right click a word, without highlighting anything, to search!


In both cases, left clicking on a search engine searches in a background tab, right click in current.

[Antonius32]

Off-topic:
@petrus: I'm sorry for replying on this old topic, but how come your context menu doesn't show Context Search X's submenu, nor it's 'Manage Engines' item?

[petrus]

I'm sorry for overlooking the question and taking a couple of years to answer it, the "manage engines" context menu entry was removed using this stylish script:

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menuitem[label="Manage Engines…"][class="contextsearchx"] {display: none !important; }

A few other things are also removed:

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#context-inspect {display: none !important;}
#inspectThisFrame {display: none !important;}
#inspectThisPage {display: none !important;}
#inspect-separator {display: none !important;}