Had to get on our developers as our main website was over 50MB on load. They hadnβt optimized any images and were using size tags to resize a 4K image down to a thumbnail.
this post was submitted on 22 Jun 2026
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This site sounds like dumpster fire
Ublock origin has the option to block all media over a certain size and JavaScript. The browser will never request the files so it will be faster (as long as it isn't inline scripts)
Alternatively https://github.com/ayastreb/bandwidth-hero/
Yeah the problem is not the browser, it's that websites are so big. Firefox works perfectly fine on low bandwidth if you use ublock origin and block media and script loading.
I use this often for the same reason, many websites don't display properly or at all anymore but at least it's more usable.
Thanks, I used it with adnauseum and it made internet slightly more bearable.
But I reduced max loading element size to 10KiB
Does anyone know how to make it load later these elements
For example load first elements with 1kb later 10 kb next 100kb etc.
Lynx or w3m or something in Termux? (Installing Termux would be best somewhere you can get faster internet, like a library or business, etc)
Can you use them on touch screen?
Yes, I just tried it. In Termux you would have the on-screen keyboard up nearly all the time anyway but both browsers I mentioned allow tapping on links, etc. (But w3m seems to require pressing Enter on the keyboard to confirm navigating to them)
Lynx still lives? π
Is there any way to disable image on firefox? Or using opera mini
I would think that whatever browser you use would, presumably, make little difference to how much data a website tries to send you? It would only change whatβs displayed. (But happy to be corrected on that by someone more knowledgeable.)
If your connection really is limited to such a slow speed, you might need to find a proxy server that strips out as much as possible before it reaches you.
I needed something like this back when I lived out in the sticks. Could only get 2g - 3g on Verizon at home, had a DSL line for the desktop, high speed connections were prohibitively expensive. Back in the day you could just walk away and let sites buffer while doing other stuff, but as the rest of the world grew faster, low speed customers got left behind. Everything is set to timeout if it fails to load in a couple minutes.
Only solution I ever found was to disable JavaScript, force everything to HTML/CSS only where possible, and use a download manager with automatic retry/restart to download any videos I wanted to watch from YouTube or Facebook.
Is there ways to do it on firefox, i remember opera had this gimmick.
Well, the browser could choose not to download the images, videos and styling information. Trouble is that many modern sites load their content through JavaScript programs that can be comparatively massive.
But I guess losing those sites would be a small price to pay for OP.
Just loading the text should be really small, especially when it is compressed, which should be the standard nowadays.
Try the uMatrix plugin. It allows you to dis- or enable things like scripts and images on a per-site basis.
You can kind of use delta chat with a preview bot. Delta Chat works extremely well on low bandwidth so even if it takes a long time, youβll eventually get the website, unlike in browsers in my experience
How does it work?
Is there an internet for this sort of thing?
Reducing data usage in general would be nice but too many websites just openly disrespect their users by using far too much bandwidth.
Probably a good use case for Gopher
Not an open ended question