How to Disable Javascript in Mozilla Firefox

The JavaScript is a scripting language is used to create your own web pages and make them interactive. Nowadays JavaScript is present near about in all the web pages, you may enable or disable JavaScript according to your need.

The webpage functions like sound, menu, buttons on the webpage and other interactive functions are provided by JavaScript. In Firefox by default, the JavaScript is enabled.

In some versions of the Firefox, the option to disable the JavaScript is removed from the web browser in order to avoid the disabling of JavaScript accidentally by the new users.

But still, in some versions of Firefox, you can disable this option that limits the content or the functionality of your web page. This article will teach you how to disable JavaScript in Mozilla Firefox.

Steps to Disable JavaScript in Mozilla Firefox

Step 1: Open the Mozilla Firefox web browser on your system and in the address bar you have to type ‘about:config’ and press enter.

Step 2: A warning is displayed that changing the configuration would affect the performance and security of Mozilla Firefox. Since we have to disable the JavaScript, we have to do changes in configuration. So, click on Accept the Risk and Continue.

Note that you have checked the checkbox to warn you when you attempt to change the configuration.

Step 3: A search bar will appear on the webpage after you click Accept the Risk and Continue button. In the search bar, you have to type ‘javascript.enabled’.

 

 

Step 4: A javascript.enabled toggle button will appear. You can see that the JavaScript is by default enabled as its value is set to true. Now, to disable the JavaScript click the toggle button.

On clicking the toggle button you can see the status of javascript.enabled is now set to false which means that the javascript is now disabled.

So, this is how you can disable JavaScript on your Mozilla Firefox. Hope the content is useful. Keep reading.