Archive for August, 2008

german vodafone 3G/UMTS has sick image quality

Saturday, August 9th, 2008

Perhaps its just me, but the image quality of pictures on websites when surfing via 3G/umts with vodafone really makes me sick. The images are blurred heavily just to save some bandwith for my flatrate :-(

After it now bothered me enough to take a closer look it seems t-online did it first and now vodafone does the same (proxying the images to much lower quality level). But at least for the firefox browser there is a workaround i found (besides reloading every page) that has no noticeable speed downside on my system but brings me full joy of websurfing back:

  1. Install “Modify Headers” add-on for firefox
  2. In “Extras” or “Tools” menu go on “modify headers”
  3. at the top select “add” (from dropdown menu), “Pragma”, “no-transform” (each without the quotes) and click the Add-Button next to it
  4. at the top select “add”, “Cache-Control”, “no-transform” and again click the Add-Button
  5. You should now have two rule entries each activated (a big green dot on their right side)
  6. close that window
  7. enjoy surfing ;-)