Comments on: Optimize Firefox For Low Traffic Volumes

By: Ottimizzare Firefox per limitare la quantità di traffico dati | Web Agency NIC Italia by Marco & Maurizio Nicosia

Fri, 24 Apr 2009 08:01:06 +0000

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By: iampriteshdesai

iampriteshdesai — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 05:26:34 +0000

Hi Sagar!
Thanx! I have written about the Firefox problem and about “How to reduce internet useage at my blog.” Click on my name to see it. Plz tell me if you find it useful. Hope Martin doesn’t mind that.

By: Sagar Patel

Sagar Patel — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 04:46:22 +0000

Yes, Pritesh Desai is partly correct. But he has made a mistake.
If we disable images to load, then they don’t load at all.
But when we download the html file, then images are downloaded! That’s why you are seeing images in downloaded file.
I have confirmed this using my bandwidth usage checker and by opening a huge Affiliate site. My bandwidth was just a little used! :)

By: Sal

Sal — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 20:39:14 +0000

thanks mrk. I recently saw someone setup opera mini on another device and wondered if the same was available for my little Linux box. Awesome! Cant wait to try it.

I also read someone made it available for the PSP. So cool.

By: mrk

mrk — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 08:47:21 +0000

Did you tried MicroEmulator + OperaMini? I’m using it whenever I need to connect my laptop through mobile phone to the Inteternet in some rural places :) With MicroEmulator profile set to “resizable”, OperaMini is quite usable on PC (tried on Windows and Linux), runs fast, eats little of bandwidth/volume.

By: Saving browsing bandwidth - is Opera alone enough? » www.Rarst.net

Saving browsing bandwidth - is Opera alone enough? » www.Rarst.net — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:52:44 +0000

[...] Martin of gHacks posted about saving bandwidth in Opera today (as follow-up to the similar post on Firefox). [...]

By: Sal

Sal — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 22:28:08 +0000

How about a post like this for Opera 9?

I use opera on an old linux laptop because it runs faster then firefox no matter what i do.

Still loving Firefox on the desktop though :)

By: Ottimizzare Firefox per limitare la quantità di traffico dati | TechUniverse

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 11:05:52 +0000

By: Rob Raymond

Rob Raymond — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 01:02:30 +0000

I actually do this on a regular basis with a Mobile profile I created:

- In the Run command box, type:
firefox -profilemanager

- Create a new account called Mobile
- Customize the profile with the instructions posted above
- Create a new shortcut on your Desktop:

“C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe” -P Mobile -no-remote

By doing the steps above, you don’t have to constantly go back and fourth with customizing your settings.

By: Martin

Martin — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 20:05:00 +0000

I’m not sure that I can follow you. When I disable images, clear both caches and open a website no images are downloaded to the caches.

By: iampriteshdesai

iampriteshdesai — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 19:10:30 +0000

Hi!
There is one mistake in your article. Disabling images causes FX to only not display images. Fx downloads the images but doesnt display them. You want proof? Do this. Keep load images option on Off. Now navigate to any web page. you wont see any image. Now press ctrl+save to save the web page. Now navigate to the folder where you have saved the page. In the related folder you will find the images. A better option is to download imglikeopera which makes Fx not to download images, I use it and it works. Tell me if it works for you. Imglike opera works only on Fx 3 i have the .xpi file. Mail me if you want it. Do tell me at iampriteshdesi@gmail.com