zxr250cc wrote:It looks to me as if the javascript problem is more than the TOR issue. Maybe I am not getting the meaning of this?
It's a privacy issue. If you use TOR, normally you want to be anonymous. At the same time, allowing javascript applets
to be executed nearly completely ruins your privacy, and defeats the purpose of TOR.
This is nowadays the default for TOR, and as lame excuse their reason is "Without javascript many websites don't work ..."
See
https://www.torproject.org/docs/faq.html.en#TBBJavaScriptEnabledSo basically you decide: Do you want anonymity/privacy, then disable Javascript in your TOR browser.
This has nothing to do with Firefox, reread your linked page:
The TOR Project's reasoning comes from the characteristics of the malicious JavaScript that exploited the zero-day vulnerability. The script was written to target Windows computers running Firefox 17 ESR (Extended Support Release), a version of the browser customized to view websites using TOR.
You won't be safer by switching to Firefox last stable or Opera, generally speaking ...