Bandwidth preserving browsing mode

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Published on 2010-01-25T21:05:27Z Indexed on 2010/03/15 15:10 UTC
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I'm looking at some methods to browse the web, in situations where bandwidth is scarce (such as, flaky wifi connection, or mobile phone internet provider who overcharges the bandwidth).

One thing that would save alot of bandwidth is not downloading images while browsing. This approach has two main drawbacks

Sometimes a site's layout depends of images.
There are some images you wish to see (thus disabling images downloading through firefox settings is not quite convenient).

I'm looking therefor for a method that would allow me to

Use some heuristic to find out which images are related to the website layout and allow them to be downloaded.
Select a particular image from a website, download and display it.

Maybe there's a firefox extension for that?

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