[Cialug] deep STOP

[L. V. Lammert]

At 03:59 PM 10/27/2010, you wrote:
>So, I run into this issue frequently, as I have my computer tethered 
>to my phone - in a location I really only get about dialup speeds.
>
>There are times when I visit a site, and want to read the content, 
>but could care less about pictures or other crap loading - so I hit 
>ESC or the stop button on the browser. And most of the time this suffices.
>
>However, I've noticed that if there are any other requests made from 
>the page with AJAX, then the stop doesn't work. This is particularly 
>noticeable in Google Reader when opening an item that has like 40 
>images, and then moving to another feed to read other items, the 40 
>images are still trying to load. I can't use the stop button or esc 
>to stop these from loading because GReader dynamically renders this 
>content, and the main "page" has already loaded. As far as I can 
>tell the only way to fix this is to close that tab and reload, which 
>is a huge PITA.
>
>Can anyone think of a good solution to this?

What about turning off  'Load Images Automatically'?

         Lee