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I am traveling and using a 3G mobile internet provider, it has limit of 3GB download every 7 days. So I was wondering what tweaks can I apply in Ubuntu 12.04.3 to minimize internet usage. I already disabled flash and images on my browser, but what else could I do. Are there some programs that use bandwidth on the background I can disable or any other tips?

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  • Turning off flash and images was a good idea. You may also want to check out a text-only browser like lynx or elinks.

  • Turn off automatic updates and checks for automatic updates:

    Open Software Center, navigate to Edit->Software Sources.... On the Updates tab change Automatically check for updates to Never.

  • Disable all syncing services you have (Ubuntu One, Dropbox, etc.).

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