Garth Wallace wrote:
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> "Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
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> >
> > Al Smith wrote:
> > >
> > > 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.)
> >
> > Netscape and Mozilla have always had a setting in preferences to allow
> > Javascript in Mail & News as well as in the browser.
> >
> > 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.
Okay sounds logical.
If it turns itself back on from closing to reopening (quiting and
openning) sounds like a bug.
Communicator has the ability to turn Javascript on and off in mail and
news and it stays put until you turn it back on.
Sorry for bring up something that might not be on topic.
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