stop images from being downloaded on webpage in chrome

Solution 1:

You can achieve this in Firefox. If you browser to about:config and set the permissions.default.image option to 2 it will stop loading images. See http://kb.mozillazine.org/Permissions.default.image

Solution 2:

Go to: chrome://settings/

Show advanced settings

Content settings

Under images select Do not show any images

Solution 3:

This is a good extension for Chrome:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/text-mode/adelhekhakakocomdfejiipdnaadiiib

It replaces un-donwloaded images by a customizable pattern, rather than "deleting" images and messing up page structure. Unfortunately I was not yet able to find an extension which shows ALT tag texts in place of the images... which is weird, being the ALT tag there just for this reason!!

Other 4 extension I tested are not good: some keep downloading images but they don't show them (???), others do not work at all, others block images for ALL pages, while this one does it only upon specifically activating the extension for each page.

edit: QuickBlock also shows ALT TEXT: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/quickblock/jlkpnekpomdbobkdokohimfcbgcpldfp?hl=en