I've started using Firefox and can never go back to Chrome

Honestly I wonder though why anyone would want JS for a text-only browser.

Maybe I have just been using one too long to remember what it is like to think the (text-only) web requires Javascript.

IME, if the goal is to read text/plain or text/html, then JS is never needed.

Generally, I can always retrieve the text/html of a website without ever using JS.

Many times times I do not use a browser for the retrieval step.

Sometimes websites might make gratuitous use of Javascript to make requests the www user never specified.

For example, the www user types example.com, but the content of the website is actually found at example.cdn-123.com.

The web developer may use Javascript to make HTTP requests to example.cdn-123.com.

In such cases, I will retreive the content from example.cdn-123.com, making the requests myself, without using Javascript.

Often JSON is returned instead of text/html. This is ideal.

Because there is no need to read text enclosed in HTML tags there is no need for a browser.

For example, I search YouTube by retrieving JSON not HTML.^1 I use netcat plus a localhost forward proxy instead of a browser to make HTTP requests. Then I transform the needed data from the JSON into a TSV table using a custom single purpose program. Optionally, I then load the table into a database using sqlite3.

1. The initial search returns HTML with embedded JSON that I extract. The continuation search returns only JSON.

   === RELEASE 2.1pre29 ===
   
   Mon Apr 16 01:49:07 MET DST 2007 mikulas:
   
           Javascript was removed. The reason is that it is very buggy, Martin
           Pergel doesn't have time to develop it and code is so messy that no one
           else can understand it.
   
           If you use links for special purposes (embedded devices, etc.), you can
           bring javascript back by copying javascript files from previous release,
           removing "dnl javascript" lines from configure.in, adding *.c and *.h
           files to Makefile.am and re-running automake and autoconf.
   
           Javascript hooks from main code were not removed --- they just won't be
           maintained.
   
   === RELEASE 2.1pre28 ===
   
   Wed Apr 11 01:39:36 cet 2007 mikulas:
   
           Fixed a bug in decompression and javascript document.write introduced in
           previous release (compressed data were displayed after document.write)
   
           (BTW. because the javascript interpreter has bugs, Martin Pergel has not
           time for it and the code is so messy that it couldn't be understand by
           anyone else, javascript will likely be removed in next release)

The biggest improvement over the account-based Chrome experience is that you could even have contexts (containers) for several things if you like - a container group for social media, a different container group for banking, work, shopping, etc.

All in different tabs, color-coded / labeled by container group, each with isolated cookies, etc but shared bruiser history in the same window just like in Chrome (I'm assuming) but with better privacy.

[1]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account...