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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!
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
- Shockwave Flash 11.7 r700
- Next Generation Java Plug-in 10.21.2 for Mozilla browsers
- Adobe Shockwave for Director Netscape plug-in, version 12.0
- Adobe PDF Plug-In For Firefox and Netscape 11.0.02
- 5.1.20125.0
- The QuickTime Plugin allows you to view a wide variety of multimedia content in Web pages. For more information, visit the QuickTime Web site.
- HP Product Detection Plugin
- HP Active Check Plugin
- HP Pit Plugin
- Intel web components for Intel® Identity Protection Technology
- Intel web components updater - Installs and updates the Intel web components
- NPWLPG
- The plug-in allows you to open and edit files using Microsoft Office applications
- Office Authorization plug-in for NPAPI browsers
Application
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Javascript
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- accessibility.typeaheadfind.flashBar: 0
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Misc
- User JS: No
- 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)
You can look at the SuperStop extension that adds Shift+ESC:
* https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/superstop/
You can also consider to animate only once by setting the image.animation_mode pref to "once" (default = "normal")
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Animated_images
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*Bug 825486 – Escape no longer stops animated GIFs
<i>(please do not comment in bug reports: [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/page.cgi?id=etiquette.html])</i>
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)!
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)!