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I'm not too sure about Firefox specifically but I know there were some vulnerabilities in image format handling etc. that could be exploited without JS; this is the most prominent one that comes to mind:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Metafile_vulnerability

However, to evade detection and frustrate any reverse-engineering attempts, even these sorts of exploits are usually "packaged" in an obfuscated JS wrapper, so they would still require it enabled to work.



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