Can I place my context menu item at the top of the context menu?

Add-ons Development
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I’m looking at writing an extension to copy Chrome’s new tab option in the tab-bar’s context menu (e.g.), but for this to work effectively I would need to add a context menu item to the top of the tab’s context menu. I found the menu’s API and the context type attribute, but cannot find any references to object placement within the context menu.

Is this impossible?

2

If you mean in WebExtension, that is not possible. The API puts all add-ons’ context-menus at the bottom.

3

Thanks for the reply. That is frustrating. I guess that leaves me with two options: Patch upstream or go back to Chrome. I use that button too much :confused:

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You can probably use the userChrome.css to rearrange the items in the menus.

5

You can definitely do it with userChrome.css:

#_8b8d1916-2691-454a-acc5-99ed5a748dc0_-menuitem-_bbcwbx\.bbcode {
-moz-appearance: none !important;
-moz-box-ordinal-group: 0 !important;
}

You need to find the css selector for the menu item though.

The ordinal-group number can be any integer, with lower numbers appearing above higher ones, and the default being 1.

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