Ever tried to view an image posted in a forum, only to be presented with the image of a frog instead of the original image? That is because, the image has been hosted with Imageshack, an image hosting service. Imageshack dislikes direct linking to the images, as it eats up their server’s bandwidth. That’s why they serve you the frog instead of the image.

However, if you are using Firefox of Opera browser, with a simple tweak you can work around the problem and actually see the images.

For Firefox:

• Type about:config in the address bar and hit Enter.
• You will see a huge list of configurations. In the filter box on the top, type network.http.sendRefererHeader. (You could just copy the name and paste it in the filter).

• Double click on the ‘network.http.sendRefererHeader’ and change the value to 0 (zero).

That’s it. Now the frog should disappear and you should be able to see the image.

For Opera:

• Just press F12 and disable referrer logging.

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