I have followed a few other SO threads on how to disable image loading in firefox. However the page looks very messed up after disabling images. Is there a way to show the image placeholders so the page look structure wise similar to the page with images.
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No, this can't be done easily. As this answer explains, if you're not actually requesting the image from the server and getting a response, the browser can't be sure how big the placeholder should be. Thus it will assume a size of {0,0}.
As usual there are lots of alternatives and workarounds, but at that point you have to decide whether the benefit of not having to download images is really worth the effort of: rewriting the page to replace images with fixed-size <div>s, rewriting the image requests using a proxy server, adding aggressive caching, etc.
