Why can't I use right click menu in Alert Dialog?
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?
Solution eye eponami
You have many choices to submit feature suggestions, depending on your desired style of interaction:
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All Replies (7)
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?
I mean <input type="button" onclick="alert()"> And, yes Ctrl+C is working. But I am missing the right click menu in FireFox.
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. ;-)
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!
Ezalaki modifié na Chaperon
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!
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.
Solution eye oponami
You have many choices to submit feature suggestions, depending on your desired style of interaction:
Discussion Sites/Advocacy
- Mozilla Discourse: https://discourse.mozilla.org/
If none of the categories seem to fit, try https://discourse.mozilla.org/c/firefox-development - Reddit (monitored by Mozilla): https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/
- Twitter (Mozilla official): https://twitter.com/firefox
Bug Tracking System
- Unfortunately, new feature requests tend to get a low priority: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/
- See: Bugzilla Etiquette