14.06.06

How to enable right-clicking in Firefox browser

Posted in Blogroll, Tech at 6:42 pm by liviu.tudor

Note: The following only apply to Firefox — there is no equivalent in IE … yet!

On the same subject as the one discussed previously: this is how to deal with websites which disable things like right-click on their pages — or elements of the page (images, divs, tables etc).

So, first and foremost, bring up the Options dialog in Firefox from Tools -> Options menu. Click on the Content tab. Make sure “Enable JavaScript” is ticked (enabled), then click on the Advanced… button to bring up the Advanced JavaScript Settings dialog (see attached image).

In this dialog make sure you disable/un-tick the setting that says Disable or replace context menus. Then accept (OK) this dialog and the previous and navigate to your page that was previously disallowing right-clicking and you will notice that you can now freely right-click and bring up the context menu in Firefox — so you can select “View Source”, “Save”, etc.

Cool, huh?

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“Protecting” the online contents

Posted in Blogroll, News, Tech at 3:46 pm by liviu.tudor

So, have you checked out http://www.protware.com/ and their product that allegedely protects your online content from copy/paste/view source and so on… What a load of pants

Don’t they just realise that since you have to make at some point the unecrypted contents available to the browser (unless you’re going to use a plugin, which they don’t!) you are basically NOT offering any protection! And here’s a simple way how to avoid this: use Firefox (by far one of the best browsers). Install the View Source Chart extension. Then enable JavaScript but disable “Disable or replace context menus”, and then visit their “encryption” demo page. Now you can simply right-click on their demo page (which shouldn’t be allowed!) and then select “View Source Chart” — voila! The whole unecrypted source is there! Even more, if after the page has been rendered you disable JavaScript, you can just select and copy any piece of text you want from the page and paste it wherever you want.

So, where’s the protection in here? :O

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