[ale] OT: Animated GIF's are back/rant

[James Sumners]

Ah, I thought they killed it altogether when they killed using ESC to stop
them -- http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/957344 . Good to know
the ability to fully kill the animation is still there.

On Wednesday, August 14, 2013, William Bagwell wrote:

> On Wednesday 14 August 2013, James Sumners wrote:
> >  The fact is that no modern browser supports
> > disabling animated GIFs.
>
> Was going to point out Konqueror does but noticed you said "modern" :)
>
> Had to search since I have never used it (unlike the easily acessable right
> click menu in Konq) but Firefox has image.animation_mode which can be set
> to,
>         none — will prevent image animation
>         once — will let the image animate once
>         normal (default) — will allow it to play over and over
>
> At least animated GIFs do not have sound, huge plus over videos that auto
> play! And while few bother, they can be optimized to be quite small.
> --
> William
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