Advanced.always load images

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The correct title of this article is advanced.always_load_images. It appears incorrectly here due to technical limitations in the wiki software.

1 Background
2 Possible values and their effects
- 2.1 True
- 2.2 False
3 Caveats
4 UI
- 4.1 Mozilla Suite Alpha M3–M15
5 First checked in
6 Has an effect in
7 Related bugs
8 Related preferences

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Background

This preference allowed users to disable image loading in the browser. Its name is fairly similar to the Netscape Communicator equivalent, “general.always_load_images”. For a time it coexisted with the preference that eventually replaced it.

The preference remained in all.js until recently, so it appeared as an entry in about:config long after the code that checked it disappeared.

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Possible values and their effects

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True

Automatically load images in webpages. (Default)

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False

Do not load images in webpages.

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Caveats

This preference has since been superseded by the preference network.image.imageBehavior and, more recently, the permissions preference permissions.default.image. Both of the replacements offer a finer grain of control over image loading.

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