Bug 56517

Summary:	automatically load local images only
Product:	[Applications] konqueror	Reporter:	klee
Component:	khtml	Assignee:	Konqueror Developers <konq-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Severity:	wishlist
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
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Description klee 2003-03-27 23:25:13 UTC

Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.1)
Installed from:    Unlisted Binary Package

It would be nice if Konq had a setting for automatically loading only local images.

For example, I frequently save HTML documentation (e.g., the Java tutorial, or Qt docs) to my local hard drive and browse it locally.  I want to load all the images for these pages all the time, but turn off image loading for general web browsing (which I often do over dial-up).

I suppose the most general way to implement this would be to make auto-loading configurable individually for each protocol.  This is more control than most users need, however.  If you could auto-load only images on the protocol file:, I think that would be enough.

Comment 1 Stephan Uhlmann 2004-07-14 23:41:12 UTC

I think a better way to achieve this is to make it an option to load images with absolute URLs (i.e. from a different location). Then images with relative URLs still would be displayed when browsing through a copy on local hard drive, while images loaded externally would be not.

This would have the additional benefit to give privacy concerned people an option to limit their data trails while surfing the web.

For example some websites have embedded 1x1 pixel images loaded from external servers to let them log my visit to this website. I would very much like to see a feature in Konqueror to block such external images while allowing the ones from the website I actually want to visit.


Maybe this is also a way to make the people over at Bug #15848 happy :)

Comment 2 klee 2004-07-15 02:07:26 UTC

Stephan's suggestion is a good idea, but it would not solve this wishlist item's original motivation, which was to allow fast web page loading over slow connections, while keeping a richer browsing experience for local content.

Comment 3 steven 2005-01-10 07:56:25 UTC

Konqueror desperately needs a setting like the one in Mozilla/Firefox where one can opt to "load images for the originating web site only" and be able to set exceptions to that rule. In addition the opportunity to add something like the extensions "adblock" and "flashblock" would be fantastic.

Comment 4 Christoph Cullmann 2024-05-06 18:38:15 UTC

Dear user,

KHTML (and KJS) was a long time more or less unmaintained and got removed in KF6.

Please migrate to use a QWebEngine based HTML component.

We will do no further fixes or improvements to the KF5 branches of these components beside important security fixes.

For security issues, please see:

https://kde.org/info/security/

Sorry that we did not fix this issue during the life-time of KHTML.

Greetings
Christoph Cullmann