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So what can you do to disable that worrysome behavior? Simple. Use Firefox and the NoScript extension. Open the NoScript “Options” dialog, switch to the “Advanced” tab and then the “ABE” sub-tab, enable the ABE feature by activating the “Enable ABE” checkbox, and add the following snippet to the “USER” ruleset:<\/p>\n
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