[conspire] Defaults and inert users

Rick Moen rick at linuxmafia.com
Tue Jul 16 14:28:32 PDT 2013


Quoting Don Marti (dmarti at zgp.org):

> 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

Ah, I hadn't noticed that.  That's a bit sad.  Basically, the preference
checkbox was moved to about:config as an idiot-proofing measure.  





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