Mobile Web Browsing on Laptop

azzidodabass · 13 Oct 2011 at 23:10

Yo

I recently just spent some time in hospital and took my Macbook Air and 3G wi-fi dongle so I could browse the web to kill some time.

I actually only spent about 30minutes over 5 days on the computer and managed to spend £9.00 just browsing sites like Facebook, The Sun etc.

This is obviously caused by the graphic intense sites I visit.

Soooo,

Is there any Firefox extension I can install that will stop sites loading in their full glory to keep data usage down? I really want something that I can just flick on and off and not have to mess around with shed loads of settings to toggle between.

As I said im using a Mac but Firefox is cross platform - hence why I posted in here.

Cheers

staylo · 13 Oct 2011 at 23:26

For disabling graphics in Firefox, just go to Tools -> Options -> Content, and untick 'Load images automatically'. Whenever you go back to Tools -> Options it will automatically be back on the Content tab (on Windows, anyway), so it's pretty quick to toggle.

You could also consider using a site that fetches the page for you and then compresses them down for mobile use - back in the PDA days http://www.skweezer.com/ was a good choice for this, but it's looking a bit ropey these days. There's probably other sites with the same concept.

stokecity_m · 13 Oct 2011 at 23:29

Just get friendly with one of the nurses and ask for the wifi password

KIA · 13 Oct 2011 at 23:58

staylo said:
For disabling graphics in Firefox, just go to Tools -> Options -> Content, and untick 'Load images automatically'. Whenever you go back to Tools -> Options it will automatically be back on the Content tab (on Windows, anyway), so it's pretty quick to toggle.

This plus install flashblock.

Rainmaker · 14 Oct 2011 at 00:54

Opera with Turbo enabled and Adblock, tbh. Easy peasy and you don't lose any images you want to see.

staylo · 14 Oct 2011 at 14:02

Looks good, got to be an expensive service to provide though!

Subliminal Aura · 20 Oct 2011 at 23:08

Rainmaker said:
Opera with Turbo enabled and Adblock, tbh. Easy peasy and you don't lose any images you want to see.

I have been a fan of opera turbo for years - especially when encapsulated in a browser like opera mini. Just tried it on my backup phone - opera mini 4 + 3g is shockingly fast :eek:

Enough of reminiscing 2007 and back to the present day.... Anyone else have problems getting Opera turbo working on an Orange connection ?
I've got the feeling that the Orange proxy is playing foul