Do not load images until F5 when switching them on

[v_2e]

  Hello!
  I have noticed that the latest versions of Midori tend to start loading all the images on all opened tabs when I switch the images on.
  Disadvantage of such behavior is in the following:
- Usually people turn off images autoload when they have a slow Internet connection or when they pay for the incoming+outgoing traffic (just like I do). It means that such people try to decrease their traffic in order to lower the Internet costs.
- In such situation a user usually opens as many tabs as (s)he wants and read the text. Until there is a need in seeing the picture.
- Imagine that you have opened 20 tabs each one of which has a number of images on it. You turned them off to save some money on your account, but when you need to see the images on only one of those opened tabs, you press the button to swich them on and Midori starts to download all the images on all of your opened tabs, which reduces all your previous efforts to zero.

To my mind, a good solution would be something like this:
- Do not load the images when they are turned off (just like it is right now).
- When the user clicks the button to switch them on - again do not load them.
- And only when the user presses F5 (or any other key combination to refresh the page) - load the images *only* on the tab being refresed.

It looks like a pretty natural behaviour to me. And I don't remember, but it seems that Midori had such behaviour some versions ago. Or maybe I'm wrong.
Anyway, when the user tries to cut down some expenses or to speed up the page load, it would be much wiser to not load all the images on all the tabs at once if the user only wants to see just one of them.

  Regards,
    Vladimir

[Cris Dywan (kalikiana)]

I fully agree with your statements. I don't recall any relevant change here, I would guess that's a bug in WebKitGTK+. If you can, I suggest you upgrade or downgrade it and see if it makes a difference. And please state Midori and WebKitGTK+ versions in any event (see about:version).

[v_2e (v-2e)]

I tested it with Midori 0.5.0 and Webkit-GTK 1.10.2 today, and the problem is still there.

[Cris Dywan (kalikiana)]

To refresh on the technical context: Since day one this feature was implemented using WebKit(Web)Settings::auto-load-images, including WebKit2. We still use one global settings object, current behavior hasn't changed.