"Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Al Smith wrote:
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> > This has happened in Mozilla milestones, and just today I noticed
> > it in Netscape 6.1. Somehow JavaScript is turning itself on for
> > Main and News. Does anyone know why this is happening?
> >
> > When I download a new milestone or nightly of Mozilla, everything
> > is already turned on after install -- Java, JavaScript, Cookies,
> > and so on. I always turn everything off. But later, when I happen
> > to look in my menus, sometimes JavaScript for Mail and News is
> > turned back on. This is driving me crazy. I'm afraid to use
> > Mozilla or Netscape 6.1 for reading newsgroups because of this
> > weirdness. (Parenthetically, no one should have JavaScript for
> > Mail and News turned on, ever. It shouldn't even *exist* as an
> > option. It's dangerous.)
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> Netscape and Mozilla have always had a setting in preferences to allow
> Javascript in Mail & News as well as in the browser.
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> You must be thinking about Active-X. Pure Active-X as MicroSoft
> implements it "is" dangerous.
No, he's talking about the Javascript in Mail/News
preference. He turned it off, but when he closes
the pref dialog and reopens it, the pref has been
turned back on.
Javascript in mailnews can be problematic, because
it lets people set cookies for tracking.
ActiveX can be dangerous, yes, but it's also totally
irrelevant to this discussion.
