"Enable JavaScript" preference checkbox has been removed in Firefox

Sat Aug 10 05:57:15 UTC 2013

On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 07:33:27 +0200,
   Ahmad Samir <ahmadsamir3891 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>Personally, I am not with or against this change, but here's their
>rationale http://limi.net/checkboxes-that-kill

They really downplay the extra security risk of enabling javascript. 
And they really are placing the blame in the wrong place, very few web sites 
really need to require javascript. It would have been nicer to see Mozilla 
push back against sites requiring javascript to function rather than to 
make it harder for people to reduce their risk of getting owned.

The images block is even stranger. Many sites look a lot better without 
images. And it needs to be a really badly designed web page to break when 
images are not loaded.