

Protect your Internet traffic, too, with Military Grade Encryption. Watch the "Block scripts in Firefox" videoĮxperts will agree: Firefox is really safer with NoScript! Using the contextual menu, for easier operation in popup statusbar-less windows. On the NoScript status bar icon (look at the picture), or

You can enable JavaScript, Java and plugin execution for sites you trust with a simple left-click Prevents exploitation of security vulnerabilities (known, such as Meltdown or Spectre, and even not known yet!) NoScript's unique whitelist based pre-emptive script blocking approach NoScript also provides the most powerful anti-XSS and anti-Clickjacking protection ever available in a browser. To be executed only by trusted web sites of your choice (e.g. This free, open source add-on allows JavaScript, So, there is no good option, and you have to pick your poison: Upgrade past 57 suffer significant amounts of usability/efficiency, downgrade to 52 and lose parts of your profile and get significantly worse performance, or stay on 56 and risk the browser getting compromised.The NoScript Firefox extension provides extra protection for Firefox, Seamonkey and other mozilla-based browsers: You will also keep getting nagged by Firefox to upgrade. This is of course a bad idea for the reason you stated, plus you lose out on future performance improvements and possibly new web technologies. It also means you lose out on a number of significant performance improvements included in 56.Īnd the last option, of course, the author's choice (which recommend against): staying on 56. This may invalidate parts of your profile.

The second option is to downgrade to ESR, which will delay the need to upgrade for a few more months. These are often what makes Firefox a good browser (for you). There's really no good forward if you're stuck in where the author is.Įither you upgrade and lose several important addons, and functionality in other addons.
