The downside is that the web is a bit slower by default, but that might not necessarily be such a bad thing and encourage more developer consciousness of how much JS they're pulling in and how resource intensive it is.
The downside is that the web is a bit slower by default, but that might not necessarily be such a bad thing and encourage more developer consciousness of how much JS they're pulling in and how resource intensive it is.
I've been browsing that way for... oh, at least a year, probably more, and I don't notice a difference. The world isn't actually Javascript benchmarks (which suffer horribly, running the same hot loop over and over), and I seldom notice the performance difference.
It's just the default in my template for web browsing Qubes, along with disabling a few other things.
If you're on an Apple device, ignore Apple and enable Lockdown. You don't lose much (some image formats, occasionally this is annoying), and you gain serious robustness against a huge wave of attacks.
So actually it isn’t disabling JIT, it is making JIT opt-in.
You also lose custom fonts on sites, but that is more feature than bug these days.