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It's useful for allowing non-technical users to do something like setting a cookie when you're trying to help them debug remotely.


Chrome and Firefox both include easy to access developer consoles to execute JavaScript in now.


Then, what good did disabling it in the URL bar do? :)


"Open the developer tools and paste this into the JavaScript Console" is far less effective as "paste this into your address bar" as far as phishing schemes go. At least, in my experience. YMMV.




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