Firefox in Leopard (2.0.0.8)

Type_R · 31 Oct 2007 at 17:58

I am running Firefox 2.0.0.8 and needed a hand trying to get rid of image compression that T-mobile insists on via 3G on their mobile broadband. There is a summary here of how to setup an extension of firefox to basically cause every image on the page to be requested as (SHIFT + Apple + R) - hence be forced in full res. I cant get it to work. Any tips, ideas or how this could be done in safari please. Thanks.

EDIT:

My problem:

Hi!

This sounds absolutely fabulous, unfortunately I cant get it to work I think my settings in ‘Modify Headers’ is not right, could you please check them for me.

Action: ‘Add’
Name: ‘Pragma:’
Value: ‘no-cache’

Action: ‘Add’
Name: ‘Cache-control’
Value: ‘no-cache’

Your help would be much appreciated. Thanks!

MagicBoy · 31 Oct 2007 at 21:44

I went through this a while back when I moved and only had Web'n'Walk for a couple of months. Couldn't be done in Safari v2 (Tiger) so I ended up using Firefox for a while.

I wasn't aware of the workaround above and external proxies etc appeared to be blocked. I got used to the keyboard gymnastics to reload the page when necessary.

I'd give it a try and help you out, but I cancelled W'n'W when I got proper broadband.

Type_R · 31 Oct 2007 at 22:16

MagicBoy said:
I went through this a while back when I moved and only had Web'n'Walk for a couple of months. Couldn't be done in Safari v2 (Tiger) so I ended up using Firefox for a while.

I wasn't aware of the workaround above and external proxies etc appeared to be blocked. I got used to the keyboard gymnastics to reload the page when necessary.

I'd give it a try and help you out, but I cancelled W'n'W when I got proper broadband.

Thanks man. I only use it away from home, on the move, its quite good apart from the annoying images!

I have tried the 'modify headers' in various configs and cant get it to work

MagicBoy · 31 Oct 2007 at 22:59

I didn't mind it so much unless I was looking at photo's or details images. Made things a bit quicker on standard 3G. On HSDPA it would quite likely annoy very quickly.

ingouk · 1 Nov 2007 at 08:29

I use WnW everyday. i just use a VPN to the company and use their internet connection to bypass t-mobiles compression stuff. Their are companies out there that sell VPN's (around £30 a year). Works great on mac. T-mobile has got some software for windows were you can disable the compression with, but it wont install if you got kasperksy antivirus install. *grrrr*

Ps.: the vpn just adds a few miliseconds to the latency.

ingouk

Type_R · 1 Nov 2007 at 15:37

ingouk said:
I use WnW everyday. i just use a VPN to the company and use their internet connection to bypass t-mobiles compression stuff. Their are companies out there that sell VPN's (around £30 a year). Works great on mac. T-mobile has got some software for windows were you can disable the compression with, but it wont install if you got kasperksy antivirus install. *grrrr*

Ps.: the vpn just adds a few miliseconds to the latency.

ingouk

Thanks for that, this might be the way forward. Any tips/ideas of which companies I should look for to get a VPN.

Fortunately I dont use windows so dont use the t-mob software to connect so cant turn off the compression thru that.

Would be nice if I could get this header stuff working though, would save me £30 for a VPN