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I have a 2010 Android smartphone and it's painfully slow to navigate the modern web, almost unbearable. Browsing news websites is simply not worth my time of wa

I have a 2010 Android smartphone and it's painfully slow to navigate the modern web, almost unbearable. Browsing news websites is simply not worth my time of waiting for the phone to download and process 22MB of JS, CSS, and graphics. Being on wifi makes no difference; it's the CPU choking to render all that cruft. So yeah, 5% of traffic makes sense.

GoblinSlayer 6y ago
In firefox (at least in desktop version) you can disable javascript and css. Not sure if they are still downloaded.
- bzbarsky 6y ago
  For scripts: if script is disabled for a document, scripts are not downloaded. See https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/rev/a5d9abfda1e26b1207db9549549ab0bdd73f735d/dom/script/ScriptLoader.cpp#1620-1627 https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/rev/a5d9abfda1e26b1207... as of today For stylesheets, I'm not certain how you're disabling them. Depending on how you do it, they may or may not get downloaded. The most common ways of disabling them result in them not being downloaded.
  - GoblinSlayer 6y ago
    View - Page style - No style
    - bzbarsky 6y ago
      That one does not prevent downloading; just prevents application.