[aklug] Re: saving bandwidth on metered Internet (was: Re: I'm an Android)

From: Christopher Kunzler <ckunzler@gmail.com>
Date: Fri Jul 23 2010 - 12:25:40 AKDT

On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 12:17 PM, Royce Williams <royce@alaska.net> wrote:
> Bruce Hill wrote, on 7/22/2010 5:50 PM:
>> Here in the poor world we're presently on a plan with 240 mins/month and
>> 300MB data for $14.86 USD. Incoming calls are free on all plans. And we
>> can call America directly from the iPhone for about 9c USD ... not bad,
>> especially considering that with a good signal here, the quality exceeds
>> that of our land line.
>
> A side note for those of you in similar circumstances: expensive or
> low-bandwidth connections. =A0A great way to conserve *lots* of Firefox
> bandwidth is the ImgLikeOpera extension:
>
> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1672/
>
> I discovered ImgLikeOpera when researching the issue for some friends on
> metered Internet in South Africa. =A0For those of you who regularly use
> Opera (hi, Tom!), this won't be news. :-)
>
> Basically, ImgLikeOpera lets you decide, on a per-site and per-tab
> basis, whether or not you want to have images automatically loaded. =A0A
> little icon sits in your status bar, and when you click it, it cycles
> through the following options (defaulting to whatever you specify):
>
> * Don't load images
> * Load cached images only
> * Load images for this site only
> * Load all images
>
> The little icon changes so you can tell what setting you're on. =A0You ca=
n
> set a default for new tabs and windows. =A0I set mine to "Don't load imag=
es."
>
> Many sites are full of eye candy that isn't actually needed for the site
> to operate, but some sites need images for basic functionality. =A0Some
> don't provide "alt" tags for their buttons; others have formatting
> issues. =A0If anything is borked, you can just click that button in the
> tray, and you're in business.
>
> ImgLikeOpera isn't marked yet to work under Firefox 3.6.x, but it really
> does. =A0Just use the Add-on Compatibility Reporter or Mr Tech extensions
> to disable compat checking. =A0(You can also do this with about:config,
> but I recommend installing both if you haven't already).
>
> I love ImgLikeOpera. =A0It saves a ton of bandwidth (not relative to P2P
> or downloading ISOs, but you get the idea). =A0It also makes many sites
> much less distracting and faster. =A0I even use it at work where bandwidt=
h
> is not much of an issue. :-) =A0Add FlashBlock to the mix for more saving=
s.
>
> Royce
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Sounds good. Does anyone know if Chromium has something similar?

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