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Remember when you could turn off the graphic loading part of the browser, and essentially only browse the web in text mode. That would be save millennia of time

Remember when you could turn off the graphic loading part of the browser, and essentially only browse the web in text mode. That would be save millennia of time.

warrenm 5y ago
...except a huge portion of the web is image-based ...so turning that off would be pretty much pointless on most sites
- gpvos 5y ago
  Yes. So, remember when that was not the case?
  - warrenm 5y ago
    I do But that's irrelevant Not loading images will nix >99% of what people actually use the web for
aceazzameen 5y ago
This reminds me of the Prodigy web browser in the 90s. The image toggle in the chrome was my favorite thing.
Santosh83 5y ago
I believe you can still do this with SeaMonkey. Or through a content blocker extension like uBlock Origin, on Firefox or Chrome.