I would not be at all surprised if there was a high correlation between "People who turned off Javascript" and "People who declined to provide telemetry", so there could be some selection bias in those results.

People who understand what that setting did can still disable by going to about:config!

This is not a conspiracy, just making browser hard to break for people who check boxes and forget about these. For those, browser is broken!

Those who know what disabling JavaScript actually does still have a way to disable! Where does all the privacy talk come in between?

NoScript is a much better option all around. I know I've been using it since forever.

When I got my last company laptop without all these things set, I was surprised how painful it was to try and download anything without a proper adblocker and noscript. I don't know how people do it.

that's a good point

Bugzilla is not your personal soapbox. The revolution is a damp squib.

Surely he was kidding?

This is no joke brother... We will not rest until this issue is heard in the highest of courts. First they came for our <blink> tags and we laughed... then they came for our options to disable tabbed browser, and they said nothing... then they came for our option to not be tracked by online advertising agencies (javascript) and everyone was too busy sharing kitten photos on facebook to say a damned thing.

Yeah. It's satire about overreactions that are so prevalent on many tech sites (including this one). Colbert would be proud.

We have already begun to gather near Mozilla HQ in San Francisco...

https://socialcam.com/v/39HPvZde

Protesters can be heard chanting:

"WHAT DO WE WANT?"

"The ability to disable tabbed browsing"

"WHEN DO WE WANT IT"

"Possibly in the next point release, but the next major is cool too"