Hi bob3160,
i appreciate that and I can understand that for you these matters do not count, because you apparently feel no need for it. And then there is no issue and let it not hamper the way you live with browsers.
For those that know what the versatility of a browser could be and how to fine-tune it's security, it is a sad thing these features do not come with certain browsers and have become for various reasons under fire and under threat. And let us not talk about the why's, etc, because that is less important.
I am not alone in my point of view and you are not alone in yours either.
But does not it take a bit of the fun and adventure out of life, when there is nothing anymore to "tinker"with. We have been made afraid for the wrong reasons, we have lost a lot of freedoms we once had or these freedoms became and become more and more frowned upon by the commercial restricters (resource engineering, testing, etc. and those that wanna have full control over our use of browsers.)
And human beings are willing to learn and while learning are being "tinkerbells" really. And that has brought the world forward, alas the conservative think differently there and also are on the side of vested interests.
If everybody would take your position, bob, browser development would stand still, bug reports weren't written anymore, script injections could not been thwarted any longer. "I don't mind, give me the appz, if I can go on clicking and it pleases me, no further questions. attached".
What I like to do, is make some additional rules for my firekeeper extension, translate them from Snort and apply them in my special blacklist, go and read the developments of NS on my good friend Giorgio Maone's NoScript web forums, ask questions about certain script threats (or go looking for them online), read reports from browser malware experts, check with jsunpack, URLvoid, malware search (also a neat Fx extension - did not see that one for GoogleChrome), see what mischief the adversary script kiddies are into with their ready-made kits (also too lazy to think it out themselves) and find ways to help browser users to find protection and apply protection.
Happy for me, I am not alone in this desire, and I hope that will be for a long, long time to come. NS-users of all lands, unite!
polonus
P.S. There is something going for the pepper project, bob, just look here:
hxtp://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/13787/ (do not try the POC would immediately crash the browser)
and this Adobe threat news:
http://blog.bkis.com/en/adobe-fix-still-allows-escape-from-pdf/