Not just me, right? If this is permanent, my best guess is that it was done to deter plagiarism by putting an end to people being able to just right-click copy whole stories.
10/11/2013 update: "Basic copy protection of story content within modern browsers. Currently it is enabled for all but authors will be able to disable/enable this feature in a coming update."
http://blog.fictionpress.com/2013/10/11/languages-for-navigation/#comments No clue why they're just now telling us this, but hallelujah at it being optional \o/