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I turned off JavaScript for a whole week and it was glorious

• J_Darnley 11y ago
  I don't need to be sold on it. It certainly is glorious. I make a slight compromise: because some websites are broken and require javascript someone should introduce this guy to NoScript.
• Terr_ 11y ago
  of the main reasons I still run Opera 12: Instant global JS on/off switch built right into the browser.
• mrerrormessage 11y ago
  It's ironic that an article about the awfulness of js on the modern web is rendered unreadable by javascript and/or flash: http://imgur.com/8Iikyd7 http://imgur.com/8Iikyd7. The page literally crashed my browser on first view.
  • undersuit 11y ago
    The difference between what happens when I turn off all my blockers(http://imgur.com/yNnP3km http://imgur.com/yNnP3km) and when I just turn off JS(http://imgur.com/cPSi5qq http://imgur.com/cPSi5qq) is pretty dramatic. It looks like most of the load is advertising according to Disconnect.
• totony 11y ago
  Javascript, the way it's used, is at best useless, and at worst breaks navigation (especially scrolling, back/forward, bookmarking). As a result, disabling javascript boost performances on most pages. Not surprising, when you look at the flood of people coming into web development that know close to nothing about it...