sweno Wrote:I'll echo Catty with the recommendation for NoScript, also Flashblock. They cut out 99% of the avenues of attack for a third party.
Unless they added extra features to flashblock then noscript already covers it. Adblock can also be handy.
Quote:A Linux-based OS is generally even better.
Agreed but even nix machines are vulnerable to flaws in the browser implementation, it's just that the damage the malware can do is limited.
But as a fellow enlightened *Nix user I'll join you in being smug and feeling superior.
(Because we are :p)Quote:And if one's site cannot be used without Javascript being enabled, then the site owner needs to fire their web designer.
Tell that to the IRS, NASA and all the other government agencies. (which are legally required to work without Javascript. Of course they don't, but I know people who make good money fixing that every two years or so.)
The problem is that once it is widespread enough to be expected it will become a requirement. This is true of all net technologies.
Quote:I don't have a problem with Java
JavaScript and Java are two different animals. It's like someone complaining that rabbits are eating their flowers and someone else chiming in that they don't have a problem with wolves.
E: "Did they... did they just endorse the combination of the JSDF and US Army by showing them as two lesbian lolicons moving in together and holding hands and talking about how 'intimate' they were?"
B: "Have you forgotten so soon? They're phasing out Don't Ask, Don't Tell."