Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Low Quality Image Problem Fix For Mobile Internet (GP) Users

Recently many of my friends on social networks start complaining that they are started seeing low quality of images which they used to see in clear. Well this is because most of them are using mobile internet for browsing the pages. In Bangladesh the largest telecommunication provider GrameenPhone wasn't using data optimization policy on their network.But as their mobile internet customers grows rapidly these days they needed to use data optimization (pre-cache) for better network flow. Read more about GP's data optimization here http://www.grameenphone.com/node/655. This reduces the image in quality resulting extra free bandwidth. So the customers going to experience slightly better speed :D But some of us don't like to see nasty low quality images actually :@ so what we do is pressing ctrl+shift+r or ctrl+F5 to reload the page in high quality again.

 The above picture on facebook displayed in low quality on my PC. As i am a firefox user so i found a way to prevent loading low quality images for ever :D

(cheers). What we need is to modify the HTTP headers requests. The methods mention below is easiest for normal user. I have used Modify Headers add-on for firefox for this purpose.


Go to this link download and install Modify Header add-on




Restart your firefox. Now go to Tools menu and Select "Modify headers"

Above window will be displayed.
select Add
on first  box type : Pragma
on second box type : no-cache
then click Add

This part is additional just Pragma no-cache will work fine.
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select Add on the drop-down again
on first box type : cache control
on second box type : no-cache
then click Add
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Then Click on Configuration button on the window. and tick the Always On:Enable Modify Headers when the window/tab is closed

or you can download this xml configuration file and import it directly.


It will look like above. Now close this window.
After that You have to clear your History . go to Tools>Clear Recent History or press ctrl+shift+del Select the time range Everything from that dialog box. tick Cache. it will look like below.

 After Clearing History Close Firefox. And Run again. Hope you will not get any low quality images again.

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