As a person who fielded calls from thousands of ordinary people with totally hosed browsers because their cousin saw an article and told them to turn off Java script or else his computer will be hacked, I totally understand this article. However, I hate it when software I use is dumbed down to the point where I can't configure it to be useful to me. My suggestion? Keep those options. But bury them. Deeply. Maybe provide an Easter egg-like thing you have to do to get at them (ie: enter "I really want to turn off javascript" into a textbox verbatim). People with the savvy to use those options will be able to find the process on Google. And the people who turn things off by mistake are typically busy wrestling with the concept of drag and drop, and won't graduate to more difficult things like that for a few more years.