The new Settings menu for Microsoft Edge does not seem to contain a way of disabling JavaScript. Going through Internet Options and disabling Active Scripting turns of JavaScript for IE11, but does not have an effect on Microsoft Edge.
Is there a way to disable JavaScript on the Microsoft Edge browser?
If you have opted to download the Chromium based Edge (at the time of writing this is the only way to get the Chromium Based version),you can disable javaScript
You can get to the JavaScript Options by either visiting edge://settings/content/javascript, OR clicking on Settings and more (Elipses) > Site Permissions > JavaScript
From Here you can disable (block) JavaScript or enable (allow) it. You can also do this on a per site basis.
If you are using the DevTools (Ctrl+Shift+I OR Right-Click on page and Click Inspect), you can bring up the Command Menu and start typing >disable JavaScript and select the Debugger Disable JavaScript option. You can re-enable JavaScript by following the same steps, but instead start typing >enable JavaScript
NOTE: you may or may not have to type the > (greater than symbol) depending on if it is already present.
Update
Microsoft changed the Group Policies for Edge since I wrote this answer. Current Windows 10 builds don't allow you to turn off JavaScript in Edge via Group Policies.
You can change this using the Group Policy settings:
"Computer Configuration: > "Administrative Templates" > "Windows Components" > "Microsoft Edge"
The same settings can also be found under:
"User Configuration: > "Administrative Templates" > "Windows Components" > "Microsoft Edge"
These Edge Group Policy Settings can be found under (User or Computer)\Administrative Template\Windows Components\Microsoft Edge\ are:
- Allows you to run scripts, like Javascript
- Allows you to let people use autofill on websites
- Allows you to let people send Do Not Track headers
- Allows you to configured password manager
- Allows you to run pop-ups
- Stops address bar from showing search suggestions
- Allows you to configure SmartScreen
- Configure how Microsoft Edge treats cookies
- Allows you to configured the Enterprise Site list
- Sends all intranet traffic over to Internet Explorer
Source Edge Group Policy Settings
Computer Configuration options can be edited through the Edit group policy tool. Just search on Group from the start menu. Took me a stupid amount of time to find that.
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Apr 17, 2016 at 21:01
Latest build of Windows 10 Edge Microsoft has removed all these options to disable JavaScript. It seems they really do want you to run JavaScript no matter what. Often JavaScript is embedded into web pages to intercept mouse-clicks to prevent users from saving content like images.
Computer Configuration / Administrative Templates / Windows Components / Microsoft Edge Allows you to run scripts like Javascript
This setting lets you decide whether to let people run scripts, like JavaScript. This setting is enabled by default.
If you enable this setting, scripting is turned on for all your computers.
If you disable this setting, scripts can’t run.
At least in my version of Windows 10 (10.0.14393), the Group Policy Setting Allows you to run scripts, like Javascript mentioned by DavidPostill and Botmaster is not available.. I think I remember the setting being there, but I can't find it anymore (I'm not 100% sure it was there "once upon a time", it might have been removed by an Update?).
If you want to enable or disable JavaScript, you now have to go to the registry, there's two possible locations for this setting:
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\MicrosoftEdge\Internet Settings\Zones\3
and
HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Group Policy Objects\{xxxxx}Machine\Software\Policies\Microsoft\MicrosoftEdge\Internet Settings\Zones\3
(where xxxxx will be different for everyone).
I'm assuming Zone "3" is the "Internet" zone (as seen in InternetExplorer security settings).
There you will either find or need to create a REG_DWORD (32-bit) with the name 1400
Values I know of:
Note: For me, the setting in HKLM had precedence over the setting in HKCU (e.g. changing the setting in HKCU had no effect for me).
