Nov142012

How can I change the quality of images in Mozilla Firefox?

Pwince Khan asks:

Is there any addon or any way to change quality of images the browser loads? I want all the images of makeuseof.com to come in low resolution to make the web page load more quickly.


Browser: Firefox 16
System: Windows
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Erlis Dhima

November 14, 2012

I don’t really know of a way how to decrease image quality in firefox! Opera has a turbo option, which is for slow speed internet connection!
But, I can suggest you read these posts:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080413174330AA1xVTx
http://superuser.com/questions/77302/bookmarklet-to-change-firefox-images-to-low-res

Hope they help you a bit!

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Aswin Kumar Nayakann

November 14, 2012

You can turn off image loading altogether in firefox;

Tools->Options
Content: Load images automatically (uncheck this)

EDIT
Well, the image data that comes from the server is (99.9% of the time) compressed. You couldn’t just get a ‘low-quality’ version of it without specifically asking for it. Sorry.

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Boni Oloff

November 14, 2012

You cannot change the image quality. You can use Opera to do that, you can turn the Turbo Mode on, it will decrease the image quality.

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Rakesh Mishra

November 14, 2012

in the settings of mozilla u can the quality of the videos

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Douglas Mutay

November 14, 2012

If you’re concerned by the size of the page the browser is loading and you can be settle for only text, so just go in your browser setting and select the option that say: do not load image. But if you’re looking for a way to decrease the image quality, I don’t think that there is such a way to do it.

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Muo TechGuy

November 14, 2012

There’s no way to request a different image from the server, which may or may not exist.

Apart from which, the images on MakeUseOf are the fastest element; it’s the javascripts which take longer to download, but if you disable those, the site will break. I guess what I’m trying to say is – stop trying to break the internet, and just get a better connection. Unless you’re running on a 56k modem, this really shouldnt be an issue.

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ha14

November 14, 2012

on firefox type: About:config
search Gfx
gfx.color_management.mode and set the value to 0
restart firefox and see if this help
then try this: go to gfx.color_management.enablev4 and set it to true

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Chew Jian Yue

November 14, 2012

You cannot change the quality of images using a web browser (opera). If the web developer had made the image quality badly, it is impossible to replace the pixels to increase its image quality.

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Alan Wade

November 14, 2012

Have a read of this article: http://www.wikihow.com/Make-Firefox-Load-Pages-Faster and dont forget the link about running Firefox in RAM.

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Terafall

November 14, 2012

If you don’t mind installing an add-on,try ImgLikeOpera
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/imglikeopera/?src=search

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