Fortunately , mellow - speed Wi - Fi is now jolly ubiquitous , especially if you live in a major city . However , there are still occasions when you ’ll find yourself without a strong Internet connection , whether it ’s on a long train trip , in a dicey hotel , or when you ’re tether from your phone in a outside wild . A couple of warm web browser app tweaks can better your on-line experience .
It ’s easiest in Chrome , where images and plug - ins can be blocked from Content configurations on the configurations varlet . In Firefox you ’ll require to dilute the about : config Sir Frederick Handley Page and change the permissions.default.image note value to 2 , while cud - ins can be block via the Add - ons option on the main card .
In Safari , you need to tick Show Develop in menu ginmill on the in advance tab of Preferences , then reach the new Develop card to find the option to disable image ; nag - ins can be block from the Security lozenge of Preferences . finally , the configurations in Internet Explorer can be found in the Tools menu — select Internet Options and Advanced to disable images or make out add - ons to control the quid - ins currently installed .
So what will you be leave with ? Sites like YouTube will be pretty much useless , and Facebook and Twitter will look radically different , but this new textual matter - based world will be very fast to move around in . you may clack around intelligence sites , electronic mail and Wikipedia smoothly even a inert Internet connective , enabling you to crunch through some work or read without having to watch images seem line by railway line . It ’s sort of like a crude version of Instapaper that works across the whole Web . And sometimes , that ’s just what you postulate .
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