[conspire] Defaults and inert users

[Don Marti]

begin Rick Moen quotation of Tue, Jul 09, 2013 at 12:48:08PM -0700:

> In other words, James had failed to even investigate NoScript, never 
> looking beyond its _name_, and assuming (in error) based solely on that
> name that it simply disables Javascript in some blanket fashion --
> without taking even a few seconds to check.  (Aside:  Why would anyone
> write a Firefox extension merely to disable Javascript, anyway?  That
> doesn't even make a tiny bit of sense.)

Only a tiny bit, now that the built-option to
enable/disable JavaScript has been buried in
about:config.

  https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=873709&resub

> The larger picture:  Installing and tweaking add-on moficiations to
> basic software requires taking initiative, and I notice that hardly
> anyone ever does.

About 8% of Firefox users install AdBlock Plus.

  https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/

That's more than double the next most popular
extension.

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