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As an aside, I happened to notice in a recent nightly build of Firefox 23 that they took away the "Enable JavaScript" check box on the options/preferences apple

As an aside, I happened to notice in a recent nightly build of Firefox 23 that they took away the "Enable JavaScript" check box on the options/preferences applet in the Windows build. If they relegate that setting to about:config that's probably going to alter the broader user perception about what JavaScript actually represents. It kind of pisses me off. I'll probably stop using Firefox because of it.

bcoates 13y ago
I'll trade all the global "click here to live in 1998" checkboxes for an Esc button that freezes a site into something indistinguishable from a scrollable screenshot.
- negativity 13y ago
  That's a superficial (perhaps naive) view of what JavaScript is capable of in a browser like Firefox. I'm not interested in having heatmaps, timers and other metrics recorded simply because I want to read the news. Not to mention that I also like to save pages for offline reading, and I expect them to re-render normally, and not trigger background GETS and POSTS and then fail to load. I'd also like the <a href> tag to behave as I expect it should, and not be intercepted, and changed after I click on it, but before the desired page loads. Oh, right, and I'd also like my history stack to stay relatively private, but you know that's really asking a lot isn't it: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/DOM/Manipulating_the_browser_history https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/DOM/Manipulating_th... Meh, whatever. I guess we should just accept the prevailing wind, and learn to cope with its ramifications, no? Is all this so inevitable?
  - Klinky 13y ago
    Disabling Javascript outright is the nuclear option. Most who really care about managing Javascript are using NoScript, an extension. Those who don't care, or don't have the technical expertise to understand Javascript won't really care where the option to turn off Javascript is located, because it already doesn't matter to them.
    - negativity 13y ago
      I disagree. It's really easy to turn on and off. And requires all the technical expertise of tying your shoelaces. Tools/Edit > Options/Preferences > Content > click "Enable JavaScript" > OK Disable it for 30 seconds, while you're using any particular page, and then switch it right back on. No whitelists or blacklists to comb through. Just refresh the page and it takes effect. Downloading an add-on or an extension is annoying and creates hassle with every upgrade. It's not automatically readily available on every computer you use. In controlled environments with shared machines, desktop support techs don't install add-ons by default, and might actively prevent you from installing them. Adjusting a global setting that's within easy reach is not an extreme response.

bcoates 13y ago

I'll trade all the global "click here to live in 1998" checkboxes for an Esc button that freezes a site into something indistinguishable from a scrollable screenshot.

negativity 13y ago
That's a superficial (perhaps naive) view of what JavaScript is capable of in a browser like Firefox. I'm not interested in having heatmaps, timers and other metrics recorded simply because I want to read the news. Not to mention that I also like to save pages for offline reading, and I expect them to re-render normally, and not trigger background GETS and POSTS and then fail to load. I'd also like the <a href> tag to behave as I expect it should, and not be intercepted, and changed after I click on it, but before the desired page loads. Oh, right, and I'd also like my history stack to stay relatively private, but you know that's really asking a lot isn't it: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/DOM/Manipulating_the_browser_history https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/DOM/Manipulating_th... Meh, whatever. I guess we should just accept the prevailing wind, and learn to cope with its ramifications, no? Is all this so inevitable?
- Klinky 13y ago
  Disabling Javascript outright is the nuclear option. Most who really care about managing Javascript are using NoScript, an extension. Those who don't care, or don't have the technical expertise to understand Javascript won't really care where the option to turn off Javascript is located, because it already doesn't matter to them.
  - negativity 13y ago
    I disagree. It's really easy to turn on and off. And requires all the technical expertise of tying your shoelaces. Tools/Edit > Options/Preferences > Content > click "Enable JavaScript" > OK Disable it for 30 seconds, while you're using any particular page, and then switch it right back on. No whitelists or blacklists to comb through. Just refresh the page and it takes effect. Downloading an add-on or an extension is annoying and creates hassle with every upgrade. It's not automatically readily available on every computer you use. In controlled environments with shared machines, desktop support techs don't install add-ons by default, and might actively prevent you from installing them. Adjusting a global setting that's within easy reach is not an extreme response.