hello

since few years im a bit surprised by the fact, that on firefox, it's harder and harder to do the following customisation :
-enable or disable javascript
-enable or disable pictures of webpages

the thing is, years ago it was just a one-click setting to change, and now it's looks like to be needed either to go on nerdly-menu (about:config, and know by heart the right one), or to use an addon (that i dont want)

do you know if there is a possibility, for an offline computer (mean bye addons), without going to about:config, to enable/disable both Javascript feature, and picture of webpages?

it's the same for customised search engine : years ago it was faisable with just entering the address of a new one into the common settings, now it's looks like an addon is required.... why?!

thank you

I use addons to do these things. One needn't be online to use an add-on. I download the file, point Firefox at it.

years ago no addon nor connection was needed to :
-en/disable JS
-en/disable images/pictures on webpages
-add/remove search engine

..why?

It's to "be more welcoming to new users". Alot of stuff has been dumbed-down.
https://limi.net/checkboxes

Firefox has to serve a clientele or go out of business. I've always browsed mostly with lynx. I've switched to seamonkey for graphical browsing and scripts, for no better reason than that it's the only other graphics browser Slackware distributes. It has those 3 features, but it also doesn't block video and, for reasons I haven't figured out, doesn't work for some necessary sites.

I think this observation is quite on the mark.

Just take a look at the browser market share stats. The majority of folks seem happy to run nekkid through the Googleverse.

As an aside, my preferred CLI browser is w3m.

Firefoggs is only slightly ahead of a browser I never even heard of (Samsung Internet) and behind a browser I never used (Opera). I could take the counter argument and say their strategy is not working.

Can we get some love for Eww (Emacs)?