Not all of us are lucky enough to have a fast Internet connection,
all the time, everywhere. As such, browsing under low-bandwidth
situations or super slow connection like Dial-up becomes a painful
exercise. In addition, if the webpages you are browsing contains too
many images, the situation could get worse. During such moments, when
you are just interested in reading the text, it is advisable to disable
the option that loads images automatically.
Firefox
had this option for quite some time however; with the introduction of
Firefox 23 and other higher versions, this option was moved elsewhere.
Prior, you could find it readily under ‘Content’ tab of Options. So,
browsing without images on a super slow connection required single-step
action – un-checking the option reading as ‘Load Images Automatically’.
Now, the scheme of things have changed a bit, but the option is still
available. It is just that to stop people damaging Firefox accidentally,
it has been moved. The action Firefox developers claim is intended to
help the majority of users.
Disable Load images automatically option in Firefox
To do this in later versions of Firefox, go to about:config. When presented with the warning message, ‘This might void your warranty’, click the button labeled “I’ll be careful, I promise!”.Now, search for permissions.default.image.
If you want to allow images loading from the same website, but want to disable 3rd party images, then set its value to 3.
To reverse the changes and allow images to load, set permissions.default.image value to 1.
Firefox addons to block Images
Image Block is a Firefox add-on that adds a toggle button to conditionally block or allow loading of images on webpages. Using it, you can do this selectively for each webpage.Another alternative is downloading Firefox add-on “SettingSanity“. The add-on adds all these removed options back to Mozilla Firefox preferences window. It also adds the option of toolbar buttons for toggling Images and JavaScript without opening the Options window.
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