On Fri, 21 Jun 2013 14:39:48 +0200 "Taiga-san" admin@taiga-san.net wrote:
JavaScript can compromise your privacy which is exactly why it's disabled in the TOR Browser. I'm not paranoid, however, if I'm looking for some strong privacy/anonymity proxy like TOR, there are some things I don't want so see like some JS contacting other sites, ads, lots of cookies etc.
javascript is enabled in tor browser. See https://www.torproject.org/docs/faq.html.en#TBBJavaScriptEnabled
While I agree that there's the need of making it better, I can't imagine a good technical way to do it. That's probably why the things are like they are at the moment.
There are some open tickets on this:
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/6978
and
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/3947