Abouut 10-15 years ago (or perhaps up to as recent as 6-7 years ago), I remember people saying JavaScript was insecure and couldn't be trusted and t people should just disable JavaScript in their web browser. These days, however, many sites and web-based software rely on JavaScript, and without JavaScript, they just wouldn't work. Makes me wonder what has changed? I l JavaScript, and there's lots of cool stuff you can do with it, so it's hard imagine turning it off, particularly with the plethora of web-based software that relies on it now. Why do web browsers even still provide an option to disable JavaScript?
Nightfox
Generally the best bet seems to be to use firefox + the noscript extension, so you get to pick what javascript (or at least what hosts with javascript) actually winds up running. Because javascript is still often insecure.
Abouut 10-15 years ago (or perhaps up to as recent as 6-7 years ago), I remember people saying JavaScript was insecure and couldn't be trusted and that
people should just disable JavaScript in their web browser. These days, however, many sites and web-based software rely on JavaScript, and without JavaScript, they just wouldn't work. Makes me wonder what has changed? I like
JavaScript, and there's lots of cool stuff you can do with it, so it's hard to
imagine turning it off, particularly with the plethora of web-based software that relies on it now. Why do web browsers even still provide an option to disable JavaScript?
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