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by degenerate 2050 days ago
I have a 2010 Android smartphone and it's painfully slow to navigate the modern web, almost unbearable. Browsing news websites is simply not worth my time of waiting for the phone to download and process 22MB of JS, CSS, and graphics. Being on wifi makes no difference; it's the CPU choking to render all that cruft.

So yeah, 5% of traffic makes sense.
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GoblinSlayer 2050 days ago
In firefox (at least in desktop version) you can disable javascript and css. Not sure if they are still downloaded.
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bzbarsky 2050 days ago
For scripts: if script is disabled for a document, scripts are not downloaded. See https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/rev/a5d9abfda1e26b1207... as of today

For stylesheets, I'm not certain how you're disabling them. Depending on how you do it, they may or may not get downloaded. The most common ways of disabling them result in them not being downloaded.

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GoblinSlayer 2047 days ago
View - Page style - No style
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bzbarsky 2047 days ago
That one does not prevent downloading; just prevents application.
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