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Clash of the Context Menus

The information age we live in is currently in transition from desktop applications to web applications. During that transitional phase, some oddities occur -- like the clash of context menus. In the screenshot below, you can see what happens when you right-click a Google Docs document in Firefox, if you tell the browser to not allow web pages to replace the context menu (at Tools -> Options -> Content -> Advanced -> "Allow scripts to ... Disable or replace context menus"): As you can see, the Docs menu is mostly hidden as it"s overlaid by the browser menu. I could easily toggle my Firefox settings to prevent this collision; however, this brings with it a bunch of other problems both on Google Docs (which doesn"t have all I want in the context menu, and ...
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>>Blog: Google Blogoscoped
>>Publish Date: 2/24/2008 7:09:47 AM
>>Keywords: context menu

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