Why isn't “right click” more used in web applications?

Question

More and more applications are moving to the cloud: Google Docs for productivity apps, Meebo for instant messaging, Gmail for e-mails, Salesforce for CRM, etc.

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Answer 1

You shouldn't fiddle with the right click because of a a little thing we call Best Practices! Don't take away my rights as a user to control my experience! I want my right click to do what right clicks do!

The best practice is to make this sort of thing optional to the user. If you want to modify this behavior, make it something users can control in their profile or in the application settings.

For example:

(click to enable)
[ ] Use super special awesome right-click menu