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Re:Exploit vendor drops Tor Browser zero-day on Twitter by evilpie on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @12:14PM (#17961061)
Firefox doesn't work without a JavaScript engine.
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Re:Exploit vendor drops Tor Browser zero-day on Twitter by flatiron on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @02:40PM (#17962210)
what about just toggling javascript.enabled ?
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Re:Exploit vendor drops Tor Browser zero-day on Twitter by tmpaccount823 on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @03:20PM (#17962468)
I can confirm that setting javascript.enabled to false would have prevented that bug in older versions.

I've always thought that the highest security setting would set it to false on its own, but apparently it does not.

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