[Firefox] Trick to Bypass Hotlink Images on Google Reader

Web site owners hate others leeching their bandwidth by directly linking to the images. By preventing others from doing this, a little htaccess modification will do the trick. However often the site owners have over done this and causes broken images on the RSS feed readers.

Here is a neat trick for Firefox users to bypass the hotlinking protection and get to view the images from your online RSS reader.

Step 1: In your address bar, type about:config to bring out the settings.

Step 2: Type network.http.sendRefererHeader in the filter bar and change the value to 0

This function will forbid the Firefox browser from revealing the your traffic to the webmasters.

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