Hi >,
It is a free world after all, and you are free to say that NoScript is a nuisance for you, and you are not the only one... I would like to say that a lot of IE users that understand the risks they are running would be glad if Mr Giorgio Maone had a similar protection developed to run inside IE.
And yes script inside a browser is the number ONE malware vector, and this will be so for a long, long time to come.
But it is the users that decide. Who knows that there will be a day very soon that FF 3.0 and IE8 look so identical, that FF will be phased out. Functionality and security often conflict, but they also can go hand in hand. Using it or not is your personal decision, I am not gonna comment there. On a Mac the story is quite something different. What I say is for FF on Windows...
pol
My point was not that NoScript is not useful, I was just saying that even without it I have never had any problems... maybe I was just lucky then I don't know. What I was trying to say is that it was annoying with questions. I don't want to set it to silent mode, because there is no way I would ever let any application even if it's some security program, to make decisions without me knowing what is it doing behind my back. Blocking all kind of content that sometimes maybe shouldn't be blocked (in some specific situations) is not something I want to see.
The other thing... isn't blocking of scripts on IE even easier than on Firefox ? You have to install some third party plug-in for Firefox, but with IE, you just have to turn off scripting.
In Internet Explorer, click the
Tools menu and select
Int.Options.
Click the
Security tab.
With the Internet zone selected, click the
Custom Level button.
Scroll down to the
Scripting section.
Select "
Disable" (or you can select "
Prompt" if you need to allow active scripting on some pages that you know you can trust, just like I need it).
Click
OK.
Click
OK again to close the dialog box.
Isn't that effect pretty much the same ?