Thankfully, there are many ways to enable the right-click menu on any website and also copy content from websites that block it. Below you will see how you can enable right-click on any website. You can use this picture from OneBigPhoto to experiment the methods below.
Disable JavaScript
Most of the websites use JavaScript to disable the right click and the highlighting feature. If JavaScript is disabled, then the code to disable these functionalities will not run. Of course, this also means you will disable JavaScript-based functionalities on the webpage. In most cases, however, you will still be able to get what you need. Here is how to disable JavaScript in your browser: Chrome: Go to “Settings” from the main menu and click on “Content settings” under the Privacy heading. Here you will find the options to disable JavaScript and manage exceptions.
Firefox: Firefox removed this option from its settings, but you can use SettingSanity add-on to get this option back along with some others.
Opera: From the Opera menu go to “Settings,” and you will find the “Disable JavaScript” option in the “Websites” menu.
After disabling JavaScript, reload the page, and the right-click menu should be enabled. Don’t forget to re-enable JavaScript as it is important for proper functioning of many websites.
Use a Third-Party Extension
If you don’t want to completely disable JavaScript, then a third-party extension should solve your problem. A third-party extension will block just the code that disables the right-click button and allows full use of JavaScript. Additionally, extensions may also breach many other limitations imposed by website owners, like ability to highlight, drag and drop, copy shortcuts and more. Below are two popular extensions for Chrome and Firefox.
RightToCopy for Chrome
As the name suggests, RightToCopy focuses on copying online content and removing all the restrictions imposed over it. This extension will enable right click, enable highlighting text, copy shortcuts and even remove “Read more at” tags from copied content.
RightToClick for Firefox
RightToClick is similar to RightToCopy, but it offers more customization options and features. It will let you enable right click, copy/cut/paste functionality, drag and drop, left click, text highlight, double click, shortcuts, timers and event listeners. You can easily enable/disable these features by going to the RightToClick options.
Copy Just Text from a Website
If your only intention is to copy text from a website that is blocking it, then you don’t need to disable anything. Just press “Ctrl + P” to open printing options and copy text from the print preview. Alternatively, you can press “Ctrl + U” to access a web page’s source code to look for the required text (Browser’s “Find” [Ctrl + F] option will help).
Conclusion
People use different measures to deal with restrictions imposed by website owners, and most of them require a lot of effort. Take this example from my person experience: A few years back I actually took a screenshot of the text and used OCR technology to extract text from it. However, the above-mentioned methods should make things a whole lot easier for you and take care of all types of annoying restrictions implemented by website owners, including disabled right click. Which website disabled your right click and how did enabling it help you? Do share with us in the comments below.
