Firefox Stops Animated Gifs

Does a web page with animated gif’s make your head spin? Pressing the Escape key in Firefox Release will stop any animated images displayed in a web page.

Try it out here – Animation Factory

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6 Responses to “Firefox Stops Animated Gifs”

Ben Rogers said on September 17th, 2004 at 9:18 am
Clicking the stop icon in Internet Explorer has for a long time now stopped gif animations. I just wish it also worked with plugins like flash.
DG said on September 17th, 2004 at 1:05 pm
wow, finally doing what IE has done for years and years…
Martin said on September 20th, 2004 at 8:09 am
Go to the page about:config and locate the key image.animation_mode. set its value to ‘none’ to stop all animated gifs !
Lars said on November 13th, 2004 at 9:28 pm
Firefox has a plugin for blocking flash. It shows a little icon where the flash would be, if you want to see what the flash is, just click it and it will play.
thesuperstar said on October 1st, 2005 at 8:19 am
thanks for the tip.
Timbo said on February 1st, 2006 at 12:08 pm
Amazing!!! I’ve been trying to find out a way to stop animated gifs for ages!

Another cool add-on that stops javascript and flash is NoScript. You can easily block/unblock javascript etc with just two clicks.

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