On Fri, Oct 23, 1998 at 08:23:18PM -0400, Steven M. Bellovin wrote: > I also have indications that under BSD/OS 4.0, Communicator 4.5 does > not disable Javascript, no matter what the setting. Can anyone > confirm that on other platforms? (Not surprisingly, I immediately > deleted 4.5...) While I was testing Netscape 4.5PR1 on both Linux and Windows 95, I found an odd behaviour. If you disable the JavaScript and restart the browser, the "Enable JavaScript" check-box is disabled. However, JavaScript still works. The workaround is to enable JavaScript and then disable it again, every time after starting the browser. I sent feedback about this bug to Netscape. 4.5PR2 was still broken on both platforms. It seems that 4.5 works correctly on the Windows platform but Linux-glibc2 version is still broken. IMO this is a security problem: if you disable the JavaScript you usually think that you aren't vulnerable to any JavaScript related bugs.
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