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Is there an extension or setting for Chrome or Firefox that can disable images in a web page so that I can have a text-only view? Changing the settings in Under the Hood is too cumbersome.

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-1 for a question that states that the right answer is "too cumbersome" and so asks for wrong answers to replace it. – JdeBP Jun 27 '11 at 9:32
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With the built-in settings, I can't selectively view webpage with and without image at the same time. How is that asking for a wrong answer? – Usavich Jun 27 '11 at 13:20
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That isn't the question that you have written. – JdeBP Jun 27 '11 at 13:29
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@JdeBP, you are completely missing the point to extensions and addons. They are meant to enhance the browser to make things easier and provide supplemental functionality that the base browser does not. There is nothing wrong with asking if there is a way to make something more accessible, otherwise there would not be so many extensions that provide a button to get at things that usually require more clicks, or work on an API to make content-settings easier to access. – Synetech Jun 30 '11 at 0:14
That isn't the question written either, Synetech. Read what was actually written before you changed it, too. – JdeBP Jun 30 '11 at 9:17
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So far, all I could find was this extension for Firefox that lets you block images, and this extension for Chrome that lets you block images and other content.

(There may also be a userscript, but I have yet to locate any generic one, but there is one specifically for Wikipedia.)

Several months ago, I requested a button/method to make toggling content easier, and it turns out that a month earlier, work was started on a way to create an API to allow extensions to do exactly this, so if you can wait, one day there will be an extension that can do specifically what you want.

For April Fool’s day 2011, Google released a Chrome extension called ChromeLite which while meant as a joke, actually does display most websites in text-mode. Since then, others have created similar extensions like Text Mode and Text Only, Please!.

Screenshot of “ChromeLite”

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