I was about to make the same point as Jim -- seems the JS setting isn't stored in the latest Netsurf so you have to remember to switch off manually every time you start up via Choices > Content > Disable JS.
Netsurf gang: is this an oversight? Can it be put back in the next update please? thanks Chris. -- Chris On 1 Oct 2015 Jim Nagel [mailto: [email protected]] wrote: > It seems that Netsurf now times out even for Wikipedia. > Try this page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritzing > Hourglass goes on forever, though it least it does not tie up the > whole machine. > Go to Netsurf iconbar choices, Content, Disable Javascript, > and try the Wikipedia page again. Now it loads no problem. > (Netsurf #2964 on Iyonix with Ro 5.18) > Anybody else see the same behaviour? > I notice that the Choices file (which results from changing something > in the Netsurf configuration) no longer stores the Javascript setting > -- it's on by default, and that's that. I'm pretty sure that in the > past, the Choices file contained a line enable_javascript:1 (or 0). > If I'm right, when did this change take place? What's the reasoning? > It would sure be handy to have a keyboard shortcut to switch > Javascript on and off!
