if your internet connection speed of very law or you are using low bandwidth connection speed at your home or at any cyber cafe. use the new low bandwidth version of orkut. the name it self describes when to use this settings. it avoids downloading most of the images. because downloadin images by the browser make the webpage loading slow. and it also counts to reduce in your MB usage of the internet connection.

In friend list of user or in your homepage, only the name link will be visible to you. no images of orkut users in the friend list of any one's profile is visible. no photos in recent updates block on the home page. it will be for example "Cute Piscean ... added 6 new photos".

also in Scrapbook, images of scrappers are avoided. you can only view his/her image by clicking on it. by default be titled as "show photo".

To enable / disable settings to use low bandwidth of orkut. go to
settings->general and choose the appropriate option.