1077835 - minimize data consumption in browser, option to hide images or compression

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox OS Graveyard :: Gaia::Settings, enhancement)

Description

[omar8161]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/37.0.2062.120 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

visit any webpage with the default browser.


Actual results:

Lots websites load lots of images, css, js while they are not required


Expected results:

some of the images are large in size while only optimized version of the image might be required. Sometimes in countries like ours where data is not cheap, we often browse websites without images. So there could be a option to hide images.

so a optimized version of the webpage would be great like they do with operamini.

Comment 2

[Ben Francis [:benfrancis]]

The browser app doesn't exist any more, I think this would most likely be implemented in the Settings app although new platform features would also be required.

Comment 3

[Gabriele Svelto [:gsvelto] (PTO)]

(In reply to Ben Francis [:benfrancis] from comment #2)
> The browser app doesn't exist any more, I think this would most likely be
> implemented in the Settings app although new platform features would also be
> required.

I'd say this would actually need to cover two things at least:

- Support for client-side optimizations such as disabling image loading (this would probably require a dedicated option in the browser API, we can't just use the existing setting as it would disable images globally AFAIK)

- Support for server-side optimizations such as page compression which is what OperaMini does

Both greatly exceed the scope of any app within gaia so I think this should be a meta-bug and possibly live in the General component.

Comment 4

[BMO Automation]

Firefox OS is not being worked on