I’ve always been a Chrome fan, but switched to Firefox three days ago. The reason is that Chrome does not have an image blocking extension yet.
Yes, I’m browsing the web with images and Flash turned off these days. It’s a minimal browsing experience. It cuts the crap and lets you see only what’s important. It gets better when you make use of the Readability extension. The pages load much faster and the dear bandwidth is saved. And if you want to turn on the images for a certain site, the toggle button is only a single click away.
99% of the sites can be viewed without images with no problem. Even Facebook, unless you want to see the occasional photo that someone tags you in.
And talking about Firefox, I’m getting used to it. It’s slow and rickety like an old CTB bus, but then, I love old CTB buses.
I thought even though you “block” images, they are downloaded to your computer. :/
PS: It is “SLTB”, not “CTB”. The King took a decision to rename government organizations that had names with “Ceylon” to “Sri Lanka”. Besides, CTB became SLTB two or three years ago.
[Censored] the king. It was, is and will be CTB for me too.
Nope, they’re not downloaded in FF. It’s not possible to do this in Chrome I guess.
Lol, I said CTB coz it was about ‘old’ buses. 😀
Oh. If it was *very* old, we could say “TPB” meaning “Thamba Panni Busses”. 😀
You can use Chrome to block images, and they are not downloaded.
Click on the little spanner at the top right corner of the screen, and select “Options”. Then, select “Under the hood”. On the first line next to “Privacy”, select “Content Settings”.
Your will see the heading “Images”, and you can block the downloading of images there.
seem’s like you are back to 80’s text based web browsing.cool concept to try out. thanks for sharing
In fact, there wasn’t a web in the 80’s 😉
Whadda? :O Then how people Facebooked in those years? :O
Believe it or not, there wasn’t a Facebook back then 🙂
Oh, I should’ve known. Those were the years that MySpace was popular, ain’t it?
it was 1981–1991 the world wide web was developed 🙂
sorry, posted in the wrong one before
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_wide_web
Launch year=1990
I have a question. If FF is slow and this image hiding tingy makes it faster. You are back where you started aren’t you? It will be sensational when it comes for Chrome. True.
It’s not the page loading that’s slow in FF, it’s the application. Yes, and the two cancel out each other in a sense.
doesn’t putting a tick to ‘Do not show any images’ in chrome works? 😮
Oops, that seems to work. Almost forgot that :s
It doesn’t work. Chrome downloads the images and only hides them in the page.
Oh just be honest. You’re just over your FUP 😛
That’s only one of the reasons, but who would disable images just because they’re over the FUP?
You. Obviously 😛
I don’t have a bandwidth problem (FUP, limited data bundle or time period) in PC. But I’ve used this method to save credits in mobile web browsing earlier.
Anyway, do you like old ladies too? They are like CTB/SLTB buses, no? 😛
I used to do that on mobile too, but now I have 350MB plan which is more than enough.
No, I don’t like everything that’s like CTB buses 😛
Whaaat? 350MB for a month?
I end up spending 7GB in two weeks 🙁
350MB is for the phone 😛
ah eka misak! 😛