An interesting mechanism in YouTube I just learned of.

If you right click once, you get their context menu:

If you right click again, you get the native browser menu:

This is clunky and not discoverable, but I can see YouTube team’s bind here. As far as I know, it is not possible to extend browser’s native right click menu (even with user’s consent), or invoke it in some other way (so that, for example, they could have an entry point to the native menu in their menu).

At the same time it does feel like the correct use of a right click menu, to host quick functions like Miniplayer or Copy Video URL At Current Time or Copy Embed Code – and, you can also see how Chrome’s own menu has a lot of cruft in it.

In a way, this might be what is often called a “progressive enhancement.” It is better than blocking the native menu altogether, and I cannot think of any smarter alternative given the constraints. But it is clunky, as things often are when websites venture out to become web apps.