Unwanted “Idealo” Spam in Mozilla Fennec

3 points by daef 5y ago ↗ HN

When I select text in Firefox on my Android phone (Fennec #861120) The context menu shows the entries: copy, search, select all, share and idealo search. I cannot seem to find an option to disable this, neither in the settings UI, nor in about:config

I'm advocating for Mozilla Products as long as I can think back, but Things like this really get to me.

Same thoughts about compact mode deprecation.

Who is responsible for crap like this? I'm really in the mood to make use of shitforyou.eu

Jokes aside I would really appreciate a "debloated" Fennec build, does anyone know of such a thing or do I have to spend my time getting to know its build process?

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anonymfus 5y ago ↗

That menu is populated by your OS, not by Firefox. Any application can implement intent ACTION_PROCESS_TEXT ( https://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/Inte... ) to appear in the text selection menu.

daef 5y ago ↗

Thank you so much, I found the evildoer. Now I feel stupid. I hope this will be a lesson for future me, to calm down and investigate a bit more before randomly accusing the first scapegoat.