Stopping Animated GIFs in the preview pane
Amazon just sent me an email an animated GIF at the top of it. As a result, whenever it's in the preview pane, it's constantly swapping colors and making a visual nuisance of itself. All morning, it's been blinking at me. Is there any way to shut off animations in the preview pane? I almost never want to see an animated gif in an email, but I definitely never want it dancing around in the preview pane.
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There is neither a preview pane or a setting in the user interface for controlling animated GIFs. There is however a hidden preference media.autoplay.enabled that is inherited from Firefox that should stop the continuous play. This can be accessed in Thunderbird using the Config Editor
The trouble I am having is getting the acceptable values. Thankfully mozillazine was resurrected and this twenty year old article filled in the blanks. https://kb.mozillazine.org/Animated_images
Valid values are;
none — will prevent image animation
once — will let the image animate once
normal (default) — will allow it to play over and over
Note that case is important in text entered for this setting. It is all lower case. No capitalization.
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There is neither a preview pane or a setting in the user interface for controlling animated GIFs. There is however a hidden preference media.autoplay.enabled that is inherited from Firefox that should stop the continuous play. This can be accessed in Thunderbird using the Config Editor
The trouble I am having is getting the acceptable values. Thankfully mozillazine was resurrected and this twenty year old article filled in the blanks. https://kb.mozillazine.org/Animated_images
Valid values are;
none — will prevent image animation
once — will let the image animate once
normal (default) — will allow it to play over and over
Note that case is important in text entered for this setting. It is all lower case. No capitalization.
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