Keith P. Graham

Firefox prevents JavaScript from accessing the context menu. The change was added to Firefox years ago. An update reset the defaults for accessing the context menu and the plugin stopped working then. I haven’t tested with Chrome or Safari in a while, but users claim it works for them. I’ve never been able to get it to work on cell phones.
There is no way to get it to work with Firefox.
I wrote this many years ago when things were simpler.
I don’t make any money from the plugin. Some people still like it. It has 20,000 users, which I don’t understand. Someday it will fade away, but for now it seems to grow every year.
Perhaps you can find another plugin that works with Firefox.
Keith

First, to be clear, Link Fixer has no control over image links. It works on pages and posts only.
If you change the slug or the location of a page or post that causes someone to get a “404 not found” error, Link Fixer will go through the database looking for something similar to the permalink of the request. So if you have a page that was called summer/swimming_at_the_pool and you change it to vacation/swimming_in_the_pool, link fixer will detect when someone wants the old url. It strips out the underscores and dashes and then searches through the database for something that sort-of matches the words swimming at the pool. It won’t find an exact match, but one that is close. This is all that it does.
Link fixer sleeps unless you get a 404 – not found error, which should be rarely. Mostly it is spammers looking for certain kinds of pages that get redirected. Unless your website has been shuffled quite a bit and search engines are directing to the old pages, there should be no effect on speed.
Link fixer builds a complete url of the page based on information in the database in order to fix the 404. This is why you are seeing the redirects to the full url.
I don’t know what is happening with Tumblr. It might be a spammer looking for a cross post script, but that is just a guess.
If you are concerned I suggest that you disable link fixer and see if there is any effect on your website’s speed and accuracy.

Good luck,
Keith

Hi,

The No Right Click Plugin is not consistent in its ability to stop the clicks. Some browsers work and some don’t. Mobile browser versions cannot handle the commands to stop right clicks. I’ve tried all kinds of combinations, but I have not been able to do it. When I go to your website using Firefox I have no trouble right clicking images.
The bottom line is that the plugin does not protect your images. It can slow some people down, but it is never possible to stop people from stealing your images.

Keith

George,

The plugin works when WordPress detects the 404 and then it looks through your pages and posts database table for a match to the permalink. Since your images are not in the database, there is nowhere for the plugin to search.
Writing a program that uses .htaccess to process a 404 for an image and then searches the file system for a match is a little more than I want to attempt. I am 70 years old and haven’t done a lot of programming in a while.

Keith Graham

Browsers have begun to change their procedures that it is no longer possible to change or suppress the right click on Chrome or Firefox. Some browsers still have by default that my plugin will suppress right click.
There are other plugins that claim to be able to do this and perhaps you should try them.

Keith

I’ll look to see how it is handling the cats and tags, maybe it is missing something.

Thanks,

Keith

The link fixer can only redirect pages that are listed as pages or posts. It cannot redirect images. This is because the plugin searches the pages table for the correct match. The images in a page are no stored in a table.

Sorry,

Keith

The link fixer only works if you have “PERMALINKS” turned on. It will try to redirect the p=1 link, but will always fail if there is no p=1. You must turn on permalinks or you must uninstall the plugin.

Keith

Firefox has changed so that programs cannot change the “Context Menu” so the plugin will not work in Firefox. Firefox claims that this is a security issue. I will test in Chrome to see if there is a similar issue there.
Tee last time I checked the code to prevent the context menu in mobile devices still works.

Keith

This sounds like a very good idea. I have to update the plugin soon and I will look at how difficult this would be. It would make the plugin much more complicated, I think.

Keith

The problem with images is how does the plugin find the correct image? A 404 on an image is a problem with bad web page design and it should be fixed before the page is published. If an image has been deleted or moved the plugin will have no clues as how to replace it.

Keith

Thanks,
Keith

I am retired. I will be updating the code once or twice a year, but I don’t expect any payment. I am bringing down all my websites and pages. I will still respond to requests and bug fixes here, but I spend my time working with my honey bees and my other hobbies these days.

Thanks,

Keith Graham

I tried in Firefox and Chrome and do not see anything weird.

Keith

Thanks for reporting back. I am relieved that things worked out.

Will