Lucky duck. It kept crashing Firefox, so I reluctantly had to uninstall it.
I’ve been missing it terribly, so many thanks to Derleth for the links.
Tuckerfan’s spot on about Proxomitron. I would recommend Privoxy. It is a bit more powerful than the Proxomitron, and it allows you to tail Tor on it as well.
Sounds like it clashed with other extensions, then, because it works fine for me and always has. One update did start doing weird things, but then the next update came along only a few hours later that corrected the issue.
I don’t think I’ve ever run across one of these sites.
Sorry NOT that I’m disagreeing that they exist, this is just new to me. What sorts of sites do this? And I do a lot of searches and stuff. I either haven’t right clicked in the “right” sites, or have been lucky enough not to have seen one yet.
Typically sites with images and the like.
Best example I can find: http://www.johnswdwpage.com/rightclick.htm (Warning: MIDI music elsewhere on the site!)
Which is quite humourous because a) there aren’t any pictures on that page, and b) if you check out the rest of the site, you discover that his frame-based design means that a substantial number of his precious pictures aren’t in fact “protected” at all, while the text presenting them is. (e.g. the “characters” galleries…)
You know, when I saw ‘No right click’, I immediately assumed it was a Mac-centric site 
If you look through the Mozilla support forums, there are a ton of threads/posts about how buggy TBE is. I loved its features, but couldn’t live with it–fortunately, I’ve been able to install the other extensions linked upthread and duplicate that functionality, so I’m quite happy now.
That site is priceless…he’s worried about his pictures getting stolen, yet what are the chances that he’s got full clearance to use the ‘Mickey’ logos?
It’s just a fantastic example of pretty much mistake you can make in web design: right-click scripts; busy backgrounds; frames; MIDI music; un-resized thumbnails; font centering all over the shop; multi-colours; you name it. Oh, and pictures of a grown man enthusing about topiary renditions of cartoon characters. One of the less common ones, that. 
I had no trouble at all right-clicking on any of the pages on that website. Is this an IE-only problem (i’m using Firefox)?
I should have checked myself first.
Yes, right click on that site works fine in Firefox, but in IE you get the pop-up warning. There must be something about the Javascript that Firefox doesn’t recognize or something. I don’t have any special tab-browser extension installed.
For those who haven’t seen this type of website before, here’s another example.
I know the right click trick doesn’t actually protect anything, but it is easy enough to put the script only on images, or only on specific images.
For instance, because part of my site, is user contributed images - I have the right click on only the user contributed images in full size. I don’t have it on the page, thumbnails or anywhere but on the actual image in ful view in the gallery.
I have this in more to educate some of our users that this material is copyrighted - and if anyone asks nicely wanting an image for thier own use, depending on whether it is a photo, or poster - I ask the person who sent a photo to contact them directly, or if it is a poster, I send a copy to the person who requested.
It gives some of the photographers (who have been ripped off in the past) a little piece of mind, and it teaches our uses that the photographers have rights too.
Now if other sites who want to protect thier images, would only use the scripts for right-click on just the images they want to protect (and never on graphics which are used as buttons) - I wouldn’t have a problem with that.
Best part: given the age of those pictures, they can’t legally claim any sort of copyright on most of them. They don’t have the option (and never did) to extend the copyright.
Hey, that never occurred to me.
Does physical ownership of the pictures give them any rights over them, apart from regular rights of possession? I mean, once they put them on a website, are they effectively saying to the world, “These are yours to do what you want with,” or do they retain any right to prevent copying?
I’m not quite sure of how this sort of thing works.
I can right click on both this one and the other example just fine. Does anyone have an example that works (or doesn’t work, depending on your viewpoint) in Firefox?
I don’t think you’re gonna find an example that works in Firefox. I’ve never come across one. The Firefox designers were smart enough to not allow a website to take away browser functionality.
It’s a bit complicated. It’s made before 1922, it cannot have an extended copyright valid now (Thanks you mofo Disney corporation bastids!). Moreover, you have to renew it every time it comes up. People used to try and run those old paintings over copiers or whatnot and then claim “copyright” on the image of the painting. The US copyright office and the courts have said that slavish reproduction of an existing work is**not ** eligable for copyright.
Don’t try it with 3-D art, because using an image of that always involves selection of lighting, angle, and so-on.