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Re:Firefox Release 89.0 by pteraspidomorph on Tuesday June 01, 2021 @10:09AM (#27354733)
Your day to day experience isn't necessarily the same as everyone else's. It hasn't been long since "View page info" was confined to a hidden menu and all context menu labels were changed for absolutely no reason.
Re:Firefox Release 89.0 by 1_player on Tuesday June 01, 2021 @02:57PM (#27359568)
My issue with the context menu is "Search [selection] with Google" is in the middle of the context menu, after "Print selection" and "Take screenshot". Why?

I cannot be the only one that uses that functionality 100 times a day at least, and it's so not conveniently placed I used to misclick "View selection source" instead a dozen times a day, and now I'll be taking screenshots or opening the print dialog by mistake. I've been googling a way of rearranging the context menu on Firefox so that selection search is rearranged or has a keyboard shortcut and not _one_ soul has ever mentioned it in the past decade, which is maddening.

One of the reason I use Edge nowadays is that "Search with Google" is the second option, between Copy and "Search with Bing in the sidebar", which isn't ideal, but it's still search.

Re:Firefox Release 89.0 by cecilpl2 on Tuesday June 01, 2021 @10:09PM (#27363982)
It's awful. "Search with Google" is actually the only reason I ever use the context menu.

Copy? Keyboard/mouse buttons for that.

Select All? Why would I want to do that when I just made a selection?

Print Selection? How common can that actually be, to justify being positions above "search the internet for this thing"??

Take screenshot???? Really??

Why does "Inspect Accessibility Properties" get real estate there? That's a legitimate question.

Re:Firefox Release 89.0 by 0-_-0 on Wednesday June 02, 2021 @04:19AM (#27366239)
If you're a mouse user you can drag and drop the selection to the address bar.

If you're a keyboard user you can do: ctrl-c ctrl-t ctrl-v enter

Re:Firefox Release 89.0 by lulalalalala on Wednesday June 02, 2021 @02:46AM (#27365679)
Just want to say "Take screenshot" is the only reason I use context menu.
Re:Firefox Release 89.0 by anoncake on Wednesday June 02, 2021 @11:11AM (#27369618)
Is it just me or is it not obvious that this entry actually does something useful instead of duplicating the OS screenshot feature? An image of the entire page including the part not on screen isn't even a screen-shot.
Re:Firefox Release 89.0 by gtf21 on Wednesday June 02, 2021 @05:52AM (#27366795)
Yes! Me too and so when a site hijacks right click it's a little infuriating (but I have now learnt the keyboard shortcut).
Re:Firefox Release 89.0 by sfink on Thursday June 03, 2021 @11:46AM (#27383100)
Also I think holding shift while right-clicking will show the context menu even if the site hijacks right click. (And for some sites, I'm pretty happy with a custom context menu, so it's good to have both available.)
Re:Firefox Release 89.0 by teddyfrozevelt on Wednesday June 02, 2021 @07:25PM (#27375286)
You can hide "Inspect Accessibility Properties" by unchecking the Accessibility menu in the developer tools settings.
Re:Firefox Release 89.0 by RheingoldRiver on Wednesday June 02, 2021 @04:15AM (#27366218)
You can use your userchrome.css to apply a background-color selectively to individual context-menu options. I do it for "view background image" and "copy link location," both of which I turn a deep purple. I've found this makes misclicks on these options (which are pretty much the only two I ever use) next to zero.
Re:Firefox Release 89.0 by hypertele-Xii on Tuesday June 01, 2021 @01:04PM (#27357775)
I've been trying to find that since it disappeared! Do tell!
Re:Firefox Release 89.0 by JohnTHaller on Tuesday June 01, 2021 @02:37PM (#27359272)
Easiest is to just hit CTRL-I. Otherwise click the lock/not locked icon to the left of the address, click Connection secure/Connection not secure, then click More Information.
Re:Firefox Release 89.0 by pteraspidomorph on Tuesday June 01, 2021 @04:36PM (#27360935)
In addition to what you've been told this dialog resides in the Tools menu, ALT+T I (ALT opens the classic menu bar). CTRL+I is the menu item's associated shortcut.
Re:Firefox Release 89.0 by sharps1 on Tuesday June 01, 2021 @12:24PM (#27357018)
Can’t remember the last time I used ‘View Page Info’, I usually just bring up the dev tools and click the mouse icon to get to the area I want to see.
Re:Firefox Release 89.0 by myfonj on Tuesday June 01, 2021 @12:57PM (#27357642)
I find Page Info (Ctrl+I, [1]) dialogue pretty useful: especially list of all loaded media and information presented in Security tab is something that you could dig in devtools quite cumbersomely or not at all.

[1] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-page-info-windo...

Re:Firefox Release 89.0 by kbenson on Tuesday June 01, 2021 @01:12PM (#27357909)
You can get to the security tab of it by clicking the lock to the left of the URL, the right caret in the popup menu, and then clicking more info, in case you wanted another way.
Re:Firefox Release 89.0 by wodenokoto on Tuesday June 01, 2021 @05:34PM (#27361652)
Not on 89 on macOS at least ...
Re:Firefox Release 89.0 by minitech on Wednesday June 02, 2021 @01:34AM (#27365222)
I just tried it on 89 on macOS and it’s still there. Click “Connection secure”, then “More Information”, to give the exact text.
Re:Firefox Release 89.0 by gary_0 on Tuesday June 01, 2021 @06:25PM (#27362253)
I wish you could enable/disable JavaScript from that dialog.
Re:Firefox Release 89.0 by pteraspidomorph on Wednesday June 02, 2021 @06:06PM (#27374614)
uBlock origin has a per-website disable javascript button. It's only 2 clicks if you have the uBlock origin button in your toolbar.