537482 - Remove "Enable JavaScript" preferences option

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 851702

(Firefox :: Settings UI, defect)

Description

[Mark D.]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2b5) Gecko/20091204 Firefox/3.6b5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2b5) Gecko/20091204 Firefox/3.6b5

JavaScript is now a required component in almost all modern web applications (GMail, Apple.com, Facebook, etc.) and this preference option is no longer applicable and should be removed. If anything, keep it in about:config.

Having this option probably causes more harm than good when someone accidentally disables JavaScript and then the web stops working for them in Firefox.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

(In reply to comment #0)
> Having this option probably causes more harm than good when someone
> accidentally disables JavaScript and then the web stops working for them in
> Firefox.

Do you have any proof for this ? I haven´t seen any such reports in Bugzilla.

Comment 2

[Mark D.]

No.

Comment 3

[David Vo [:auscompgeek]]

Then we'll probably scrap this bug.

Comment 4

[Florian Bender]

I hope this option will never be removed just because SOME applications require it. 

May anybody please set this to WONTFIX?

Comment 5

[:Cykesiopka]

Forward duping as Bug 851702 has more people CCed, and has a patch attached.