NoScript is harmful and promotes malware
Alternative: uMatrix<p><a href="https://github.com/gorhill/uMatrix" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/gorhill/uMatrix</a><p>Made by the same developer of uBlock Origin, allows blocking of Javascript and other aspects of the site.<p>I switched awhile back and found it somewhat more usable than NoScript, insofar as it usually allows Javascript on the <i>local</i> site by default, while automatically blocking JS on third-party domains. There are some growing pains associated with it, as there are with NS. Some of the drawbacks I've noticed:<p>- It will take about three or four refreshes before you can whitelist everything necessary to get Youtube working. First youtube, then s.ytimg.com, then googlevideo.com, THEN you might finally get a video.<p>- Any page with a Google Captcha on it will take several refreshes to completely let them through. This is particularly irritating if there's a captcha on a form.<p>- Anything which needs to reach out to jquery, ajax, etc. will fail. But you should be able to whitelist those once then add them to your permanent whitelist.<p>- I have yet to find a good tutorial for uMatrix yet on how to make some pre-defined rules for common sites. That would greatly reduce the learning curve.