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by JeremyChase 5713 days ago
I feel similarly constrained when traveling and using my limited bandwidth 3G card. I did the following:

* Installed Squid locally - This has the benefit of allowing all your browsers to share one cache.

* Run AdBlock in Firefox - This causes advertisements to not download. The latest AdBlock in Chrome also stops the downloads (this wasn't always the case)

* Run Flashblock - Whitelist sites where you need to see flash.

* Rarely I'll disable images to view sites that I know are wasteful of bandwidth

* Use elinks, rather than lynx. elinks feels much more user friendly.

My current machine runs OSX and I used brew to install squid/elinks.