"Enable JavaScript" preference checkbox has been removed in Firefox

[Robert Holtzman]

On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 03:53:03PM +0200, Reindl Harald wrote:

     ......snip......
> 
> smart people never built websites which are unuseable without JS
> JS is nice for additional features and comfort but only a fool
> builds a ordinary website which doe snot work without JS

Don't try counting the number of web site dev fools out there. You won't
live long enough to finish.
 
> 
> > The security answer here isn't going back to the web of the 90s. It's using
> > modern container and security policy systems to contain the risk
> 
> no policy will help you in case of a hacked server blowing exploits
> to visitors and this happens all day somewhere else

         .....snip.... 
> 
> cause and effect: because these attitude most users starting in
> a few years from scratch to use computers will be idiots in case
> of how to handle computers because they never got the chance to
> learn - hence with this attitude i would never became the poweruser
> i am now and never had done the switch to work as IT professional
> while my whole knowledge is from learning by doing

+1

> 
> this attitude is understandable in case of Apple/Microsoft which
> try to reduce their support but it is *unacepptable* in the
> context of free and open software

+10



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