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Option to disable image lazy loading on mobile sites?
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While lazy loading is great for slow net links, it brings me a very bad experience with intermittent LTE networks. The experience is like this:

  1. I'm using a phone in the subway (or other situations I actively move)
  2. The train stops and signal is good, so I open a Wikipedia page I want to read
  3. The train leaves, and the signal decays as I'm reading. Then I'll find that some images and formulas don't load because the signal is bad at the moment (I'm even totally disconnected in some places). So I wait again.
  4. The train reaches another stop, and signal becomes good again. Now I have to refresh the page and navigate to where I left quickly in order to force the content I'm going to read to load.

With intermittent networks, I always want the whole pages to load as soon as possible, because maybe a few seconds later nothing won't be able to load. So, can you provide an option to disable lazy load?

Event Timeline

Jdlrobson closed this task as a duplicate of T136693: Make lazy loading images resilient.
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We're trying to avoid preferences for anything that changes HTML markup but we should make this more resilient for this use case.