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Is there a way I can disable images for just one specific website that won't load properly?

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ElisabethP
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The website Epinions.com is not loading properly for me (since it went through an upgrade). Pages will begin to load and stop midway or only load a small amount. I'm getting frequent timeouts where pages entirely fail to load. I think one reason this is happening may be because the site is much more image heavy than it used to be. I would like to disable images on just that one site rather disabling all images in general. Is that possible? If so, how do I do it?

The website Epinions.com is not loading properly for me (since it went through an upgrade). Pages will begin to load and stop midway or only load a small amount. I'm getting frequent timeouts where pages entirely fail to load. I think one reason this is happening may be because the site is much more image heavy than it used to be. I would like to disable images on just that one site rather disabling all images in general. Is that possible? If so, how do I do it?

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cor-el
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The default of the pref network.http.max-connections has been increased from 30 to 256 in Firefox 6 and 7 versions.
You can try to decrease the value of the pref network.http.max-connections from 256 to 48 as used in Firefox 8 on Windows.

To open the about:config page, type about:config in the location (address) bar and press the "Enter" key, just like you type the url of a website to open a website.
If you see a warning then you can confirm that you want to access that page.

  • Use the Filter bar at to top of the about:config page to locate a preference more easily.
  • Preferences that have been modified show as bold (user set).
  • Preferences can be reset to the default via the right-click context menu if they are user set
  • Preferences can be changed via the right-click context menu: Modify (String or Integer) or Toggle (Boolean)
ElisabethP
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I tried this solution a while back and it doesn't seem to have helped. But thank you.

I have seen that I can uncheck "load images automatically" from the tools/options area (under "content" tab) but I really don't want to do this universally. I would like to try to find a way to disable images from the one specific website that is causing me problems (and which happens to be one I really need to access).

cor-el
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Try to update to Firefox 8 to see if that helps.

ElisabethP
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Thanks. It didn't solve it entirely, but it did help -- and I think I've figured out something that's working for the moment. I was able to block images for the one specific site when I went back in and tried -- which I wasn't able to do before I upgraded to the new release. Page-loads aren't perfect, but they're loading better than they have for me in days...and I will take that as a good sign!