On Sat, Jan 07, 2023 at 12:50:37PM +0000, Joe wrote:
> On Sat, 7 Jan 2023 07:39:41 +0100
> <to...@tuxteam.de> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Jan 06, 2023 at 07:41:16PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > 
> > [...]
> > 
> > > [...] hope that Firefox gets a bit more memory-efficient,  
> > 
> > Stefan, I *love* your dry humour :-)
> > 
> > That said, my way to cope with it: my main browsing profile
> > is one where I have excised javascript [...]

> I use No-Script in Firefox. I find that very few commercial sites work
> without at least the site itself being permitted to use JS.
> 
> There are a few sites that just show a blank screen without JS. That's
> rude, and I generally move to one of their competitors' sites.

Exactly: and this is why I go to the extra length of "forced opt
in": I only see them if I can be bothered to create an extra
profile for that. I usually decline :-)

(The one that miffs me is actually NASA, a javascript black hole.
But I live with that).

[...]

> Client-side scripting is the work of the Devil.

I'm old enough to have witnessed Word under... Windows 3.1 and when
I saw it comes with a scripting language and you could embed scripts
in "text" documents, I thought "hmmm... I wonder whether this is
a good idea". Back then, boot sector viruses in floppies roamed the
Earth.

Plus ça change...

cheers
-- 
t

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