http://www.ben2.ucla.edu/~dabruin/falcon3d.html uses javascript alerts to prevent users from looking at the source code to his site. If the site is opened in a chromed window, this isn't a huge problem because users can use menus, but it's still annoying. IE has a workaround: press escape after mousedowning, and the context menu pops up when you mouseup. This trick doesn't work in Mozilla because Mozilla triggers context menus on mousedown instead of on mouseup. There was another bug somewhere that wanted to disallow popup windows for some event. This bug may be a duplicate of or closely related to that one.

I was thinking of bug 40005, "Option to disable windows being spawned on exit".

Too late to do this now, marking Future.

Interestingly, Mozilla now pops up the context menu even while the alert is active (you have to hold down the right mouse button to see this). I was able to get two modal dialogs at once using that by clicking "save as" in the context menu... weird. Updating url to http://www.angelcities.com/members/jeditemple/3dcraft.html.

Updating url to http://www.bol.ucla.edu/~dabruin/coolpics.html.

See also bug 14716.

This is an event problem, over to joki.

See also bug 72084, "There is no way to disable the context menu upon right- click".

> There was another bug somewhere that wanted to disallow popup windows for some > event. Bug 92955?

See also bug 86193, "There is no way to always open the context menu upon right-click (oncontextmenu?)".

there is now an option to always open the context menu (see bug 86193)

*** Bug 282966 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Bulk priority change, per :mdaly