How to Declutter Firefox's Right-Click Menu on macOS Using about:config Settings
By
mmsc
The kind of bagel that ruins lesser bagels for you.
Summary
The article provides a practical guide for Firefox users on macOS to declutter the browser's bloated right-click context menu using about:config settings. It critiques Firefox's default context menu as excessively cluttered with 26 rows, 8 dividers, and 2 submenus, including unwanted AI chatbot prompts, link previews, OCR features, and visual search options. The author offers specific about:config preferences to disable these low-value menu items and restore a cleaner, more functional right-click experience.
Key quotes
· 5 pulledTo be blunt: holy fucking shit, what the fuck is all of this shit? 26 rows of which 2 are greyed-out (aka: fucking useless), 8 dividers, 2 submenus; because a single row for 'Ask an AI Chatbot' just wasn't enough, they just had to make another submenu. Amazing.
The 'Inspect Accessibility Properties' button was added because I opened the Developer Tools once.
A practical about:config checklist to declutter Firefox right-click menus on macOS, disabling AI/chatbot prompts, link previews, OCR, visual search, and other low-value context menu items.
Freshly installed Firefox, right-clicking an image while some text on the page is highlighted (to show as many buttons as possible)
Making Firefox's right-click not suck with about:config
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