How to Enable or Disable JavaScript in Chrome?

Just like any modern web browser, Google Chrome supports scripting. By default JavaScript comes enabled in Chrome. But it can be easily turned off too! In fact, all modern browsers support easy enable or disable of JavaScript as per user’s convenience. Want to turn off or turn on JavaScript in Google Chrome browser? In this article, you’ll find detailed instructions on how to enable and disable JavaScript in Chrome. Read on and follow the steps.

How to disable or turn OFF JavaScript in Google Chrome?

In order to turn OFF JavaScript in Chrome, follow these steps:

1. Open Chrome browser.
2. Press the Chrome menu (icon with three horizontal bars) and select Settings.
3. Go to the end of Chrome Settings tab, and click the +Show advanced settings link.
4. More settings will appear. Go to the Privacy section and press Content settings… button.
5. A new Content Settings window will appear. Go to the JavaScript section and select Do not allow any site to run JavaScript.
6. Press the Done button and restart or refresh your Chrome browser.

That’s it! You just turned JavaScript OFF in Chrome browser. Now do whatever you wanted to do or simply browse the Internet without JavaScript.

How to enable JavaScript in Google Chrome?

So, disabling JavaScript is easy in Chrome. But what if you wanted to re-enable JavaScript? Wondering how to turn JavaScript ON in Chrome? That’s also simple and steps are almost same. All you need to do is select the other option in step 5. The following steps will help you in enabling JavaScript in Chrome browser:

1. Open Google Chrome browser.
2. Press the Chrome menu (icon with three horizontal bars) and select Settings.
3. Go to the end of Chrome Settings tab, and press +Show advanced settings link.
4. More settings will appear. Go to the Privacy section and press Content settings… button.
5. In the Content Settings window, go to the JavaScript section and select Allow all sites to run JavaScript (recommended).
6. Press the Done button. Restart or refresh Chrome.

The above mentioned steps will help you in turning ON JavaScript in Google Chrome browser. Unless you are fixing something (example: switching to Yahoo Mail Classic), I suggest you keep JavaScript enabled on your browser. Otherwise many websites will appear broken or won’t work on your browser.