Can I switch off javascript in /admin/build/menu

I don't think you can turn off javascript using a setting in Drupal itself but you can always turn off javascript in your browser.

Will that work for you?

- Arie

Right. Maybe you could explain in more detail what your problem is exactly?

- Arie

I think the real problem here is that a site with lots of menus takes *minutes* to load to the admin/build/menu pages for that root menu. The javascript takes forever to even load.

@Ne_L@drupal.ru: I assume that you mean that you go to /admin/build/menu and you try to edit the menu that displays your taxonomy menu items. Say for instance navigation. Drupal then tries to take you to /admin/build/menu-customize/navigation

I suppose you could argue that the scalability of that particular page leaves something to be desired. AFAIK all the menu items of the menu that is being edited are loaded into that one page. After the page finishes loading, a JQuery function adds the the draggable functionality.
So if you try to load a menu with hundreds or maybe even thousands of items the page will probably timeout or your server will run out of memory.
And if that doesn't happen than JQuery takes forever to finish making the page so slow it's really unusable.

OTH this page was probably never designed to hold a (very) large amount of items otherwise it would have some kind of pager.
And the problem with a pager is that you can't drag an item from one page to the other without reloading (not easily anyway)

So I suppose that if you want to use menus that are that big, you should be using a different interface to manage it. Preferably something with a pager ;-)

Or did I misunderstand (again) ?

- Arie

Closing as it is old. Feel free to reopen. A module like http://drupal.org/project/tiny_menu_editor should help.