how to stop animated gifs from blinking, ESC key no longer working
In previous versions of firefox, I could stop animated gifs from blinking by pressing esc; this is no longer working. Blinking makes me a little crazy, how do I make blinky things stop blinking? Please help!
Chosen solution
You can look at the SuperStop extension that adds Shift+ESC:
You can also consider to animate only once by setting the image.animation_mode pref to "once" (default = "normal")
- Bug 825486 – Escape no longer stops animated GIFs
(please do not comment in bug reports: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/page.cgi?id=etiquette.html)
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Installed Plug-ins
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- 5.1.20125.0
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Misc
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- Accessibility: Yes
Chosen Solution
You can look at the SuperStop extension that adds Shift+ESC:
You can also consider to animate only once by setting the image.animation_mode pref to "once" (default = "normal")
- Bug 825486 – Escape no longer stops animated GIFs
(please do not comment in bug reports: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/page.cgi?id=etiquette.html)
Helpful Reply
OMG, you are my hero! THANK YOU! I don't know why, but animated gifs make me irrationally angry, and now my life will be peaceful again (at least when online)!