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Nanna Jack
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Hi. I am getting slowness, crashing and websites not working as they should. Mainly I think it's because I have turned javascript off. I didn't realise that I had until trying to view a website that advised me to turn my "javascript" back on. The trouble is I dont know how because it was turned off accidentally.

Where is it found even? Sorry to be such a technophobe and have a phone that is smarter than me but the phone is just not doing what it should. Can anybody help please.

Hi. I am getting slowness, crashing and websites not working as they should. Mainly I think it's because I have turned javascript off. I didn't realise that I had until trying to view a website that advised me to turn my "javascript" back on. The trouble is I dont know how because it was turned off accidentally. Where is it found even? Sorry to be such a technophobe and have a phone that is smarter than me but the phone is just not doing what it should. Can anybody help please.

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Firefox for Android comes with Enhanced Tracking Protection built in. You can read more about this at:

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enhanced-tracking-protection-firefox-android

This is a good baseline to protect yourself. You are more than welcome to use the add-ons that are currently available, but (as you have found) the more you block and disable, the harder it is to use some websites.

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Paul
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Hi

Do you have any add-ons installed in Firefox for Android?

Nanna Jack
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Thanks for the quick response.

I took the advice you gave me about adverts when you said I could try adding something, but I can't remember what it was now. Can you?

The trouble is I do like to explore and try and learn more but I seem to have come unstuck. The emails and offers that I do accept from a chosen few are coming through without any details or images of what I might be buying or prices of how much they are.

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Reply is above. Sorry!!

Paul
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Hi

Do you have any add-ons installed in Firefox for Android?

Nanna Jack
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Hi Seburo

I think I've found how to turn Javascript back on. Whats the risk of having them on though. Since they have been turned off it records that: AdGuard AdBlock has blocked 1'928 since install. UBlock Origin has also worked and between them blocked 4'090 ads (57%) since install. If I turn them on again, (cosmetic filtering and javascript) will the blockers still work? Jackie

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Firefox for Android comes with Enhanced Tracking Protection built in. You can read more about this at:

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enhanced-tracking-protection-firefox-android

This is a good baseline to protect yourself. You are more than welcome to use the add-ons that are currently available, but (as you have found) the more you block and disable, the harder it is to use some websites.