Booting Ubuntu on a UEFI computer

[Bret Busby]

On 21/02/2018, Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 10:33 AM, Bret Busby <bret.busby at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 20/02/2018, Oliver Grawert <ogra at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> do you use any browser addons that could block things like javascript
>>> execution or other web bits that are rather standard nowadays?
>>
>> javascript is disabled.
>>
>> Apart from all of the other problems (including progressively
>> consuming all available RAM), javascript is apparently the medium used
>> by Meltdown and/or Spectre.
>>
>> So, for safety and stability, javascript is disabled.
>
> Can't you enable javascript on a site-by-site basis?
>

I use toggling the value in about.config to enable javascript for only
two web sites.

Javascript is simply too problematic and too harmful, and I get fed up
with the system crashes that it causes, due toi people incapable of
proper web site development.

As my wife, who uses the horrible tool in her work, has told me, a web
site that uses javascript and that is prpoerly developed, shoulds not
endlessly consume RAM and cause system crashes due to running out of
resources, and, properly developed web sites should release the RAM
tghat they hijack, when the applicable browser tabs/windows accessing
the web sites, are closed. That generally does not occur, so
javascript causes system crashes.

Unfortunately, the advent of such fourth generation development tools,
resulted in decreasing competency in web developers, so that properly
developed web sites that use javacript, are few and far between.

javascript is simply, due to the nature of the majority of web sites
that use it, the same in nature, as Meltdown and Spectre - one of the
greatest threats to ICT, at present.


-- 

Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia

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"So once you do know what the question actually is,
 you'll know what the answer means."
- Deep Thought,
 Chapter 28 of Book 1 of
 "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
 A Trilogy In Four Parts",
 written by Douglas Adams,
 published by Pan Books, 1992

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