Absolutely. This is my default setting on Opera. Disable plugins as a default, too.

I enable images with keyboard shortcut and javascript/plugins on a case by case basis. The sites I frequent (./ and NYT etc) get to run with JS/p[lugins/images. the rest, barebones.

"A study of 243,068 users found that 76% of them were vulnerable to history detection by malicious websites."

Vulnerable != affected