my issue with the default reader and photos are that even with the image cache off it will start to download any images found in the feeds when a refresh is triggerd. and if you cancel that it will again try to download them when you read the actual feed.

thing is that i often connet to the net via a mobile phone, paying by the megabyte...

but then its not the only feed reader with a problem. the one found in opera mini also ignore any image settings you may have for the browser itself...

as one may tell, im very picky about feed readers...

and no, i have yet to geet it to install using the .install file...