# Multimedia preferences

Here you can configure advanced forms of Web content, from simple images and sound clips to more advanced audio/video content.

## Images

Web pages are made up of a combination of text and images. Images usually take longer to transfer to your computer than text. To sacrifice images for quicker page loading, you can show pages with no images, or only with images that have already been transferred to your computer (in the cache).

Some images can be animated, and are mostly used for advertisement banners in Web pages. Turning animation off will display only the first image in the series of animation, resulting in a calmer perception of the page.

## Media types

Some Web pages have video streams and background sound embedded into them. If you find this time-consuming, you can turn them off.

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## JavaScript

JavaScript is a programming language commonly embedded into the Web page source code, to make Web pages more dynamic. JavaScript is not a clearly defined standard, thus JavaScript content is sometimes poorly implemented. If you are concerned about using JavaScript, you can turn it off, but some Web services may not work as a result.

To be warned about problems with JavaScript on a page, turn on error reporting. This is both useful for people developing in JavaScript, and for people who want to notify Webmasters about problems on sites.

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