Orkut Low Bandwidth Version – Good for Dial-Up and slow GPRS users

Orkut silently launched a low-bandwidth version. Many forum sites have a lo-fi version for dial-up users. But orkut took different path and rather than giving a separate subdomain with complete redesign, a small setting is added to General Settings.
To enable “low bandwidth” version…

• Go to General Settings
• Find low bandwidth setting
• Click on show the low bandwidth version of orkut option.
• Hit save changes button at the bottom. (not shown in screenshot)

Selecting show the low bandwidth version of orkut option switches your account to low bandwidth version where images in scrapbook, profile pages and users orkut homepage are disabled. Considering users spend more time on these pages this is good.
Still if you like to see communities, friendlist and other areas of orkut or any site without images, you can use imgLikeOpera, a firefox plugin, which turn on/off image loading just by clicking on a small icon in browsers status-bar