Bandwidth Saving?

[JBenci]

Hi

I am on a 500mb 3G contract. Now that isnt much considering in a good "browsing only" session I can use up to 60mb.
What I need help finding is a firefox plugin that will reduce my bandwidth usage. What I am thinking of would work something like this:
It will display images but at a reduced quality thus saving on bandwidth (also increase loading times of pages), I THINK mweb had an app like this in the days of 56k but that wasnt a firefox extention. Know what I mean?

Any ideas?

Thanks.

 

[jarr]

you can give adblock plus a try - helps with bandwidth and blood pressure

 

[ajax]

There's also a flash blocker plugin. It just displays an "F" image on your screen and you can choose to display the flash by clicking on the image.

Your idea on the reducing the pics is a good one. Don't know about a solution though.

 

[AirWolf]

The only one that I know of isn't for pc --> Opera Mini

 

[Syndyre]

You could get the ImgLikeOpera extension for FireFox that allows you to only display cached images, images in certain tabs etc.

 

[Terencek]

Browsing without pix -- super-cheap!

Dunno about Firefox, but in Opera you can configure a button which toggles images on or off, making browsing without images (until you get to where you actually want them) super-cheap. It can turn a R1 or R2 webpage into a matter of just cents. Using the inbuilt popup blocker also makes a considerable price difference -- all those unrequested t*ts and bums cost bucks!

I remember asking MWeb when they mailed out their compression software CD to all clients (which is what I think was originally referred to here), if it would work with GPRS etc., and their answer was no.

 

[jarr]

Dunno about Firefox, but in Opera you can configure a button which toggles images on or off....

there is an option to disable websites from displaying images in firefox, too, yes
but you have to go to 'tools' -> 'options' -> 'content' in order to do it

 

[Sselmrah]

I have to agree with Terencek, using Opera is great for saving bandwidth. Seems slightly faster too.

 

[AirWolf]

Yes Opera with images switched off may save on bandwith but it comes up with all those links which can make some pages unreadableThere must some option to run it in a way similar to Opera Mini so that the pages get compressed without losing the visual appearance.

 

[ld13]

There is a $$$ option in the software lane. It’s called Onspeed. Available at that incredible corruption place. Compresses webpages and reduces the Quality of Images in sites – works through Onspeed’s “proxy” servers to do the compression. But I won’t buy that. I use the Web Developer Toolbar plug-in in FF to block images with Adblock Plus to block Flash adverts. Website owners could also look into utilizing GZIP on their pages.