I turned off JavaScript for a whole week and it was glorious

I don't need to be sold on it. It certainly is glorious. I make a slight compromise: because some websites are broken and require javascript someone should introduce this guy to NoScript.

Javascript, the way it's used, is at best useless, and at worst breaks navigation (especially scrolling, back/forward, bookmarking).

As a result, disabling javascript boost performances on most pages. Not surprising, when you look at the flood of people coming into web development that know close to nothing about it...

It's ironic that an article about the awfulness of js on the modern web is rendered unreadable by javascript and/or flash: http://imgur.com/8Iikyd7. The page literally crashed my browser on first view.

The difference between what happens when I turn off all my blockers(http://imgur.com/yNnP3km) and when I just turn off JS(http://imgur.com/cPSi5qq) is pretty dramatic. It looks like most of the load is advertising according to Disconnect.

of the main reasons I still run Opera 12: Instant global JS on/off switch built right into the browser.