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Firefox should concentrate on its biggest asset, ability to customize natively. For example I would like option to customize right click so when i right click term i would like to have ability to search by all search engines that i want to use not only default.Also most annoying thing in both browsers is not having ability to copy link as text not only its address.

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Use the context search extension: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/context-searc...

If by default Firefox has multiple engines than by default i should be able to use it with right click on text.

Context Search is actually worse than default because i don't want to add one more click to access default search engine search i want to stay as it is and below that add wikipedia and WolphramAlpha engines.

You can copy links as text (at least in Chrome): just right-click and choose "Copy".

It's weird, I remember a similar option being there, but it's not (neither in Firefox nor Chrome)

http://imgur.com/a/ncvyt

Android still has it

It makes extra sense to have it on touch-only platforms, where selecting text is more difficult (and long-pressing a link doesn't initiate text selection).

WFM on Mac: http://i.imgur.com/67G6R1p.png

Doesn't work unless you select the text for me.

On a mid-2014 Macbook Pro, I'm having a hard time right-clicking without selecting the text using the touchpad. I think its automatic. How are you doing it?

I am using right click with a magic mouse on an early 2011-mbp. FWIW I just tried it on my touchpad without selecting anything and it doesn't show that copy option in the context menu. It is possible that it's a setting somewhere.

Yes, you can copy text of link if you select all link text but why not just by right clicking link.

Also in Firefox:

CoLT (Copy Link Text)

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/colt/

You can customize it to copy in different syntaxes; for example you can have it copy in Wikimedia link syntax.

Agreed. Firefox has two advantages: it's customizable, and it's not made by a major tech company. If the customization goes, then there's only one advantage left.

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