Functional "fall-out" in Firefox on 8.04

[Alfred]

Hi Richard MacPhail:
Several people spend all kinds of money on making a Web site, only to
have the Content Stolen. So in making the page more secure from theft,
things like Right Click can be disabled on the Web Site, some times a
transparent image will sit on top of the Image you wanted to Take, and
when you take it you get NOTHING! Sometimes the Text is in a different
format than what you have Viewers for, so you can't see it, when you try
to copy it!

FireFox most likely works just fine.

Alfred!
-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel Robitaille <robitaille at gmail.com>
Reply-To: The Canadian Ubuntu Users Community
<ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com>
To: The Canadian Ubuntu Users Community <ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com>
Subject: Re: Functional "fall-out" in Firefox on 8.04
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 21:03:18 -0500

On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 12:04 PM, Richard MacPhail
<richard.macphail at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm running Ubuntu 8.04 and I've been using the Right Click -> "Save Image
> As..." function in Firefox forever.
> A few weeks ago this command just stopped working (which happens, I guess).
> Then I did the unspeakable -- went back to my dual-boot WinXP side to grab
> images.
>
> Two days ago, no longer able to bear the shame, I went into Synaptic,
> reinstalled Firefox 3.0.5, and wondrously "Save Image As..." worked again
> ...until this morning when once again, nothing happened upon executing that
> command.
>
> What to do? I don't want to be reinstalling the same software 2-3 times a
> week!?!?

It doesn't work everywhere?  Or only at some specific sites?

I'm asking because some web sites are known to disable the option of
using right-click to save images via some javascript "magic".  See for
example this old bug report:

https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/23632

I would be very surprised if being able to right-click or not would
come and go simply by re-installing the same version of Firefox.


-- 
Daniel Robitaille