Re: eww: delay/defer image loading

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

"T. V. Raman" <address@hidden> writes:

> If I use eww to display rss feeds that are converted to html via
> xslt I notice that eww is busily loading lots of urls in the
> background -- many of these images.
>
> Example: Cnet Tech News RSS:
> http://feeds.feedburner.com/cnet/tcoc
>
> I got a number of these downloads to not happen by temporarily
> advising eww-display-image to be a no-op -- could we have a
> user-customizable option to defer loading images?

You can inhibit image loading by binding `shr-inhibit-images' to a
non-nil value.  Perhaps that should be a more user-visible variable.

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