Hi bob3160,
Radical script blocking options-non-versatile like NS webcop plug-in
Tools menu (Wrench) ...
Options > Under the Bonnet > Content settings
There is a tab for JavaScript where you can either allow or disallow JS to run, it also allows you to provide exceptions to your choice ...
Under content settings you can also configure Cookies, Images, Plug-Ins and Pop-ups ...
Blocking script can also be done with bookmarklets, but that is after the fact, so after the malcode has run..
I want to come back to the main point of what this discussion was on about from point one, the total protection that a browser can get by using NoScript extension, and the discussion is not what browser, but rather why it was not brought into IE9, GoogleChrome or any other browsers than the Mozilla type. We all have arrived at the fact that blocking malicious ActiveX scripts, having endless Tuesday patch rounds to patch browser bugs etc. is not the same protection after the fact as providing a possibility to be pre-protected with just one plug-in/extension/add-on against all browser-related malcode!
Yes bob, Dch48, that try to talk the urgency of having it in all browsers away because it interferes with their fun/speed/use whatever argument can you throw at it to ignore it, you cannot ignore these plain and simple facts.
It would be a lot calmer at the virus and worms section here, the lists in Norton Safe Web of malicious and suspicious websites would be less urgent, because one could go there with a browser with NS installed and active and still not get a drive-by-download or adware or spyware or being unwantingly redirected and tracked, yes you even can have bogus adcode that takes the place of the real adcode there with NoScript, it blocks XSS attemps, hidden inline scripts, one could read about these threats on unmasked parasites, the webmaster must have forgotten to cleanse it off of his site, still no worry whatsoever, NS inside the browser. That is fun browsing for me, because the malsite probability is not always at the back of my head!
.... How can you talk such a solution down?.....
I know why MS and Google won't give support for full NS, because it may avert their ad-tracking business schemes,
and advertisers and people to cash in on your browsing habits will not be applauding when NS is brought in, but I cannot surf without it, so I keep it close at hand. GoogleChrome speed, separate tab processes, won't crash, but insecure without NS, IE8 and 9, speed, starts up and deeply embedded in the operational system, more secure as IE6 was, but less secure because of the lack of full script blocking features. They all come in so many flavors but again without your friendly webcop, NoScript,
polonus