Every once and a while, I come across a website where some bumblefuck idiot tries to stop visitors from right-clicking on their page, usually in a sad little attempt to prevent people from downloading their images. They copy and paste the little Javascript trick to disable right-clicking and sleep peacefully, under the impression that their dearest little JPEGS are safe and secure.

Anyone with half a brain cell should know that if you’re going to insist on controlling your content and being a greedy little fuck, putting your crap on a website is not the way to go. By viewing a web page , your computer is requesting and downloading the files that create the page to it’s hard drive and then displaying them in your browser. If you put an image in a web page, anyone who views it has already downloaded it. Disabling the right-click is not only pointless and retarded, it’s really fucking annoying and a bit insulting. Who the fuck tells you what you can or cannot right-click on? Screw that!

If someone’s decided to go all control freaky and disable right-clicking, they should know that it takes me all of a few seconds to open my browser cache to get at it. Easy shit.

So fuck this anti-right-clicking shit. It pisses me off. I rarely make a habit of using images from other websites and if I do, it’s a site that has an explicit Creative Commons license encouraging me to do so. So why be such a hater? Loosen that sphincter! Your shitty Photoshop Elements pixel vomit is hardly worth stealing anyway.

It’s possible that at this point, dearest reader, that you may be picking up on the fact that this stupid little practice seriously irritates me. Okay, okay, I admit it. It makes me want stab things and fling poop like an irate Rhesus monkey. So is daveb the type of punk-ass bitch to take this no right-clicking shit by bending over, grabbing his ankles and reciting the Lord’s Prayer? Fuck no, people of the world! You can disable that shit permanently and he’s going to show you how. This wild man we call daveb rules!

First off, this tutorial assumes you are using Firefox 1.5. If you’re not using it, you should be, so switch. Do it. Do it now. It’s the dog’s fucking balls, daveb swears. Got it? Cool.

Disabling right-click blocking with Firefox

1. Open Firefox (duh)
2. Get all up in your options/preferences. It varies by OS. For Linux, it’s Edit>Preferences. OSX is Firefox>Preferences. Windows hides it in Tools>options.
3. From there, get your ass into the section named “Content” and find the little checkbox named “enable Javascript” and click the “Advanced” button that’s next to it. This will pop up a new little options window.
4. In this window, you will see a checkbox named “Disable or replace context menus“. Uncheck that shit!

That’s it!

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