Edit: reread my post again: just to be clear, I do use a number of plug-ins, but don't think it makes sense to require plug-ins for such basic security related

Edit: reread my post again: just to be clear, I do use a number of plug-ins, but don't think it makes sense to require plug-ins for such basic security related items as turning off scripting or javascript, or for turning off functionality such as loading pics on a slow connection. --- So, in order to turn off features such as javascript for privacy or security at less trusted or unknown sites, the author wants me to trust not only the security and code quality of the browser but also the security and code quality of a 3rd party plug-in? I really don't like this trend toward moving toward plug-ins for everything - although I am OK with moving things to about:config. As it is, I really hate the fact that I have to install additional plugins in order to turn off all scripting - seems that this - if anything! - should be a built-in option. This makes me trust Firefox less. I switched to Firefox back when it was around version 0.6 or 0.7 - its greatest selling point then was that it could not run ActiveX and that this was good from a security standpoint. As it is now I don't see any benefit to it compared to IE from a security standpoint and only stick with it due to the great number of options that are easily configurable in about:config.