The few who will persevere enough to find out how to retain the functionality are inconsequential to the numbers game. where firefox is trying to make more money and where it currently gets most of it’s money) and taking the control out of users hands which might mess with that ‘experience’. One can pretty reasonably surmise that this and the automatic updates are about ensuring the firefox ‘platform’ is a consistent target for app developers and advertisers (i.e.
When it’s pretty clear that tech literacy has never been higher. Unless we’re supposed to believe the ludicrous suggestion that users today are thicker and less tech savvy than they 15 years ago. Protecting ‘inexperienced users’ from making mistakes is just an excuse, not a reason.
I do know some users on the other hand who browse the web with JavaScript turned off by choice, and they may have a problem with Mozilla turning on JavaScript automatically in their browser when they update to Firefox 23. I do not think I have ever used the preference to turn off JavaScript which I can attribute 100% to the use of NoScript. Just type in dom.disable or dom.event to take a look at those. You find other options listed here as well. The advanced options are not gone, they are also listed in the about:config dialog. If the organization did, they do not seem to appear with a javascript tag in there. I'm not entirely sure if Mozilla has added them as preferences in about:config as well. The advanced options of the dialog seem to be gone. The reasoning here is that inexperienced users would have a hard time figuring out how to turn JavaScript back on if they made the change by accident, while experienced users will certainly be able to figure out what happened. It is again designed for inexperienced users who have turned off the feature by accident. You are probably wondering why that decision was made, as it changes a user's custom configuration of the browser without notification.
If you have turned off JavaScript in Firefox currently and upgrade to Firefox 23 or newer, you will notice that it will automatically be turned on again without you being notified about it.