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Re:"Disable Javascript" option removed in Firefox 23 by nnnnni on Monday July 01, 2013 @05:43AM (#5969614)
It's a shame that they didn't push "ecmascript" as the name ~15 years ago back when it was new. Now we're stuck with problems like this...
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Re:"Disable Javascript" option removed in Firefox 23 by JadeNB on Tuesday July 02, 2013 @11:14AM (#5978322)
It wasn't an accident—they wanted to appear similar to Java (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript#Birth_at_Netscape):

> The final choice of name caused confusion, giving the impression that the language was a spin-off of the Java programming language, and the choice has been characterized by many as a marketing ploy by Netscape to give JavaScript the cachet of what was then the hot new web programming language.

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