> improve page load times and to remove the most annoying ads. The vast majority of pages work (to some degree) without scripts. In my experience using NoScrip

> improve page load times and to remove the most annoying ads. The vast majority of pages work (to some degree) without scripts. In my experience using NoScript for the past year on all my desktops and laptops, this is at best only partly true. Load times do definitely decrease, but this is dwarfed by the effect of having to reload the page for most new sites after re-enabling Javascript (since so many sites are unusable without Javascript[0]). In the end, it's a much slower experience browsing the web, not faster, and even with aggressive whitelisting, it's still rather frustrating. I actually have separate Firefox profiles that I use for various websites that tend to be particularly problematic with extensions (like online banking), so I'm not even including those in this summary. I wish using NoScript provided a faster browsing experience overall while providing better security, but the simple fact remains that right now, it does not. It provides better security at the expense of slowing down your browsing experience. [0] So many static blogs now literally fail to display static text without Javascript!