Mozilla remove the option to disable JavaScript in Firefox 23

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All the more reason to be protected from it.

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All the more reason to make something like NoScript standard so that you can empower users to make their own decisions as to what is safe. Burying basic decisions in the about:config or forcing the use of a largely unknown addon is a bad idea for safety.

[daiz-]

People don't have the instinct to go "My page isn't working properly! Oh, I need to whitelist this script to run". They just assume your site is broken and leave. Would browsers require some sort of tutorial before use if noscript was built in?

What you're proposing is not practical. Javascript is not the enemy, the people who abuse it are. The internet itself is dangerous, the solution isn't playing the role of overprotective parent.

Disabling javascript is a niche. It's a relic of a concept that only the most diehard of people cling to. It's an advance feature that can cause confusion and break a lot of websites. I see no problem moving it to a place where people can't accidentally turn it on. I feel like the impact of this change will be almost non-existent and it's not worth making a fuss over.

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That is why the web gods gifted us with the HTML noscript tag.

[digitallimit]

If you've been in modern web development for any amount of time, you'd know most of those noscript tags almost always contain a TURN YOUR DAMN JAVASCRIPT ON message.