Firefox 23 lands with a new logo and mixed content blocking
Found on Ars Technica on Wednesday, 07 August 2013
Firefox at last follows the lead of Internet Explorer and Chrome, blocking mixed use of (non-secure) HTTP content from (secure) HTTPS pages.
Arguably on the other side of the security fence, Firefox 23 removes the ability to disable JavaScript in its preferences dialog. That's not to say that Firefox 23 can't disable JavaScript (the setting in about:config still exists and still works, and Firefox 24 will add a feature to the developer tools to disable JavaScript too), but the most easy and obvious way of disabling JavaScript is gone.
I really would like to know how many of those people who actively disabled Javascript in the preferences complained that Javascript was not working anymore and, at the same time, were unable to figure out why. I mean, it must have been an impressive large percentage so that Mozilla considers removing this way to disable it. I bet Mozilla would also remove any sharp object from a household because, well, you might cut yourself.