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Click and Hold Menus in Firefox (OS X)

New Firefox, same problem. You see a link in the browser, you click your mouse button and hold it, expecting to see a context menu (what Windows or Linux users would see with a right-click), and nothing happens.

This is frustrating, because thanks to the infinite wisdom of Jobs, many Macs have only one mouse button. Once again, the good people at Mozilla have ignored a fundamental feature of the Mac UI. 

Here’s the solution: browse to about:config, and search for ui.click_hold_context_menus. Double click where it says “false” to set it to “true”, and now you’ll get the context menu by holding the mouse button.

Thanks to my own damn self (circa 2006) for the tip!!!