07-02-2008, 19:58
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Disabling Javascript
The current issue of ComputerActive suggests disabling Javascript to avoid currently increasing online threats. So, I do this in Firefox and the first thing I find is that this forum is now blocked - it has simply disappeared from the submenu on the home page. Aghhh!
So, I check the article again and discover that there is a Firefox extension called NoScript that allows you to mark a site as safe. Well, I've given the seal of approval to this forum but how much grief am I going to get in future? In other words, how common is Javascript and am I forever going to be having to mark sites as safe. If so I may have, in sheer desperation, to give up on the idea of disabling JavaScript.
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07-02-2008, 20:07
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Re: Disabling Javascript
Quite a lot of sites use js, but then it's only 2 clicks of the mouse to unblock something...and very often the non-js versions of sites (where available) are much easier to navigate! 
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07-02-2008, 20:27
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Re: Disabling Javascript
I run NoScript and have scripts disabled for cableforum - it makes things run faster. However, I *can* manage to negotiate the forums and do just about everything without temporarily enabling them again.
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07-02-2008, 20:31
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Re: Disabling Javascript
A vote for NoScript here, not really a problem. Main sites I have to unblock are those that use scripts to activate drop down options & flash video....
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07-02-2008, 21:30
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Re: Disabling Javascript
If you insist on being that paranoid then use noscript.
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07-02-2008, 21:52
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Re: Disabling Javascript
Quote:
Originally Posted by downquark1
If you insist on being that paranoid then use noscript.
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I mostly use it because the bells and whistles it's often used for irritate me... where it's actually useful, I'll enable it.
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07-02-2008, 22:01
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Re: Disabling Javascript
And another vote for it here.
It really is very good and does its job well
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07-02-2008, 23:14
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Re: Disabling Javascript
I use javascript on one of my pages, but it is just used to calculate an age.
I keep mine on, but I should noscript it, but its flash I find annoying
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08-02-2008, 14:34
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Re: Disabling Javascript
I think I'm starting to get the knack of NoScript but is their anything similar for IE? As was suggested in the article I mentioned, I set Active Scripting to prompt in IE but this seems to be making things almost unusable - on the BBC news site I had to agree to scripts about a dozen times in succession, and if I closed down IE and opened it up again I had to go through the same palaver.
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