>>>>>I was roaming recently using a dongle and so I wanted to turn off pictures sound video etc in my browser to speed things up. I could easily do this in IE but couldn't find a way to do it in FireFox.
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>>>>http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070827181539AAkmqQo
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>>>Interesting. But my load images automatically is already unchecked and it doesn't seem to make a difference.
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>>Maybe what's getting downloaded, that you don't want, is something else, like Flash content.
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>I don't think so.
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>I'm browsing a lot of news pages etc and I can see all the pictures and embedded videos etc. I can't see any place holders for images so I assume I'm getting everything.

There may be one or more plugins for FF that let you control what gets downloaded.

Another thought - if you enable the image load function, then disable it again, does that make any difference?