[tor-bugs] #5744 [TorBrowserButton]: TBB-Firefox allows style change on mouseover (JS disabled)

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#5744: TBB-Firefox allows style change on mouseover (JS disabled)
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    Reporter:  rransom           |       Owner:  mikeperry
        Type:  defect            |      Status:  closed   
    Priority:  normal            |   Milestone:           
   Component:  TorBrowserButton  |     Version:           
  Resolution:  not a bug         |    Keywords:           
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Comment(by mikeperry):

 Replying to [comment:1 guiseppe]:
 > As seen in #5741 disabling JS would prevent or mitigate a lot of privacy
 and security invading issues.
 > Why do you accept this ongoing threat caused by these crazy JS codes?

 Because normal people can't use the web without JS and won't know why.
 Mentats are free to click the "break the web button" if they wish.

 > I mean, it is a nice effort to preserve as much as possible user
 experience and normal browsing behavior (according to the TBB design
 document). But this trade-off should not lead repeatedly to such security
 holes we have seen recently.

 We're going to adjust our development processes to address this instead.
 Specifically, see #3846 and #5790.

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