Safari 17 loses "disable javascript"?

Right click anywhere on a web page and choose "inspect element", or choose "Show Web Inspector" from the Developer drop down menu. In the upper right hand corner of the web inspector just below the red, yellow, and green window buttons, there are five icons. The last icon is a device icon. Click it. A popup will appear with some checkbox options. One of the options is "disable javascript".

I use Automator to make the script a "quick action" and saved it as a service for Safari and assigned a keyboard shortcut to it. This required allowing Safari to "control this computer" which I wasn't sure I wanted to do.

I ended up using Automator to turn the script into an app. I created an icon for it and put in the dock so I can click on it to turn JavaScript on and off. It is not as convenient as using a keyboard shortcut (I would use Cmd J to disable/enable JavaScript then Cmd R to refresh the page) but whatever.

Choose Show Web Inspector in the Develop menu, click the Device Settings button, and check the box to disable it.

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The device setting is useful for the one instance but not for links opened in new tabs or new windows. They open with JavaScript enabled.

The script sets it globally but, unfortunately, it does not always work (at least not for me). I have it in a Shortcut and it fails about half the time.

Checkout the solution at Ask Different: https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/465150/make-shortcut-to-enable-disable-javascript-with-safari-17-0

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