informationweek.com — Here are five essential tools for securing Firefox by disabling JavaScript and Flash, sniffing out suspicious sites, foiling phishing, preventing peeks at private data, and preparing powerful passwords.
Jul 15, 2006 View in Crawl 4
bonzooznobJul 15, 2006
Disabling JavaScript shouldn't be necesary. Firefox has a popup blocker installed, and with Adblock, you can rid yourself of the anoying ads. Disabling JavaScript in Firefox just means you are losing out on some of the neat "Web 2.0" things. Remember, JavaScript is _NOT_ JScript! If you are browsing the Net in IE, well, then, yeah, you probably want to disable all that ActiveX, VBScript etc. Hopefully one day MS will separate ECMAScript, from their "JScript" stuff, so we can keep the ECMA, and disable the JScript stuff.
mookiexlJul 15, 2006
Every article from informationweek reminds me about another extension: Repagination. Why must they split every f***ing story to 5+ pages? At least they have printer-friendly version here: <a class="user" href="http://www.informationweek.com/shared/printableArticle.jhtml?articleID=190400479">http://www.informationweek.com/shared/printableArticle.jhtml?articleID=190400479</a>
ldinorJul 15, 2006
Just added NoScript and the difference in the speed of pages loading is outstanding. I am so glad this article was posted as I had not tried this before, what a big relief. No more lagging pages that wait for all the junk to load before becoming accessible.
cornstarchJul 15, 2006
That article did not need to be 5 pages long.
billyg123Jul 15, 2006
CTRL+SHIFT+DELETE clears data already, no ext needed.