Disable Context Menu While Selecting Texts In Microsoft Edge Droidwin

It has now become a new trend to force a feature onto the userbase, without taking the consent of the latter. The likes of Firefox’s Proton UI, Chrome’s Profile Selection screen, or the Edge’s new Download Mode, all these features have been offered to us and we have any say in this, whether you like it or not. And as of now, the Chromium browser from Microsoft has again done something along the same lines. By default, when you want to copy a word/line/para, then you just need to double click on that content to highlight it and then drag the cursor up to the desired limit. However, that is no longer the case. If you now highlight the desired content and perform a Ctrl+C, the selected texts wouldn’t get copied. This is because, in between both these activities, Microsoft has inserted its own context menu. As a result, if you now wish to copy a text, then after highlighting it, you will have to choose the Copy option from the menu that appears. All in all, it has made the Ctrl+C shortcut of no use whatsoever. And this is a big no from my side. If you also echo this thought, then this guide is here to help you out. Given here are detailed instructions to disable the context menu while selecting texts in Microsoft Edge.

There exist two different methods through which you could carry out the aforementioned task. And we have listed both of them below. You may try out the one that you find easier to execute. So with that in mind, let’s get started.

The first approach could be carried out directly from the site you are currently browsing. Here’s how: The first option will only disable this menu on the site that you are currently on. Whereas the second option will disable this feature across all the sites. So make the desired selection and that’s it, you have successfully disabled the context menu while selecting texts in Microsoft Edge

The second approach to turn off this feature is via the browser’s settings menu. Here’s what you need to do: That’s it. From now on, you wouldn’t get the context menu on all the site’s URLs that you have added in this section, whereas the menu will still appear on all the other sites.

Concluding Remarks

So with this, we round off the guide on how you could disable the context menu while selecting texts in Microsoft Edge. It would have been a much better approach from the tech giants if they have kept this feature in its disabled state by default and only have notified us of this feature via a prompt at the very max. But at least they gave us an option to turn off this feature and that’s the least we could have asked for. Rounding off, I have always found such unnecessary additions in the browsing experience to be a hindrance to the normal workflow. What are your views on the same? Do let us know in the comments section below.