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Today I will post a simple solution for Windows that allows you to disable Javascript. I suppose you have a clean installation of IE without any plugins, and this is the solution that really works.

Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.x, 6.x, and 5.x

1. Open Internet Explorer.
2. Select Internet Options from the Tools menu.
3. In Internet Options dialog box select the Security tab.
4. Click Custom level button at bottom right. The Security settings dialog box will pop up.
5. Under Scripting category check Active Scripting, Allow paste options via script and Scripting of Java applets
6. Unheck radio boxes.
7. Click OK twice to close out.

Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.x:

1. Select Internet Options from the View menu
2. click the Security tab
3. click Custom
4. click Settings
5. scroll down to locate Scripting
6. click Disable for Active Scripting
7. click OK, then click the Reload button

Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.x:

1. Select Options from the View menu
2. click Security
3. check Disable Java Programs
4. Click
5. OK, then click the
6. Reload button

Sometimes this is necessary to do, though I’d recommend to use Firefox or Opera if you need fast switching between JS and non-JS browsers.

I’ve been using Opera for about 5 years and I know that recent changes are not so good as they are expected. The first issue that made me to decide to try Firefox was that Opera doesn’t support any password managers (quite useful thing, I will describe mine some time later). But there are some features I really appreciate in Opera that’s why I’m using 3 browser under MS Windows.  Each of them is good in its way, but Opera has some features that are extremely important.

Today I’ve faced the problem with certificate import in Opera. If usually there were no problems during import, today I’ve got a message about an unknown error or something related to this. As there are no log files like Linux has , I’ve started to search the forums and the solution was found. I would like to share it with you.

If you need to install any certificates in Opera 9.5+, you must uninstall it and then roll back to version 9.27 (that’s the version I’ve checked). Make sure to remove everything related to Opera: check your Documents and Settings folder and remove anything related to Opera before installing version 9.27.

After you install Opera 9.27, you may import your certificates as there are no problems with the import process. Then you may wish to upgrade to the latest version and your certificates will be working as usual. I hope that guys at Opera will fix this, but if you need to fix it now, you’re welcome to do it. Old Opera version may be found on their site.