"Disable Javascript" option removed in Firefox 23 • Hacker News Board

Re: "Disable Javascript" option removed in Firefox 23

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Post by straight_talk » Wed, Jul 03, 2013, 10:27 PM UTC

tokenizerrr wrote: post #370

straight_talk wrote: post #348

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Seriously? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_banking http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-site_scripting

Except that Javascript cannot access that, unless some glaring design flaws have been made. If you disagree with me, and believe it can, I would just love to see a webpage that dumps out valuable data inside my browser. I'll visit it without any browser plugins using the same session I have been using for over a month, promise!

A human would never make "glaring design flaws".

Re: "Disable Javascript" option removed in Firefox 23

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Post by gavinpc » Sat, Jul 06, 2013, 4:42 PM UTC

LaGrange wrote: post #243

scotty79 wrote: post #231

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Dumb lawers litter my web. Whining is the only thing I can do. Besides, even small bar often becomes huge bar on mobile.

Again, blame the web designers who don't even do enough diligence how others do the same. And demands of proper, obvious labeling is one of the better tools to stop companies from putting useless crap everywhere.

I agree with you about the design issue. I've had to create one myself (http://tenjin.ie) -- although I think the laws in Ireland are slightly different than elsewhere in the EU.

Regardless of the laws, though, when a site fails to function, it should tell you when cookies are the reason. It's not hard to do.

Re: "Disable Javascript" option removed in Firefox 23

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Post by thenonsequitur » Mon, Jul 08, 2013, 8:40 AM UTC

vacri wrote: post #115

kondro wrote: post #27

I can't remember the last time I wrote an application that didn't rely on Javascript for even parts of its basic functionality. I simply don't understand why you would want to browse the web without JS enabled and the average user definitely would never turn it off except in error, causing them to think the browser is broken. Every single common-use browser on the Internet supports Javascript, there is no reason to a…

Some mainstream sites will load js from 20 (or more) sources, just to show you an article. Crazy. Every mainstream browser supports Flash, too - does that mean Flash is the way of the future? I run with NoScript, and it makes the web a quieter, more peaceful place.

Actually, at least one mainstream browser (Safari for iPhone) doesn't support Flash, and that's a part of why Flash has been declining (HTML5 capabilities being another important part).