With Firefox, and the PrefBar extension, you can in fact force it to stop loading pictures. I do that a lot when browsing ad heavy sites and when I need to surf quickly. You'd be surprised how well lots of big sites support text-only browsing, and how fast it is.
Currently, you need to hack the PrefBar extension to get it to run right on the latest FireFox, but it still works (or at least as well as it did before).
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