Animated gifs, icons, and how to stop them

[dimity_blue]

I really dislike seeing animated gifs or icons on a page while I'm trying to read text. I find them distracting. Normally, I just hit 'escape' and that stops them, but if I'm reading a message board and a frequent poster an animated icon, it's annoying to have to hit 'escape' for every page.

Then a poster on fandom_secrets posted a way to automatically turn off all gifs/animated icons on Firefox, Opera, and IE! Click the cut if you want to read how.


Firefox:
go to about:config
set image.animation_mode to none


Opera:
press F12
unselect Enable GIF animation


Internet Explorer:
go to Internet Options < Advanced < Multimedia
unselect Play animations in web pages

Source: http://googlesystem.blogspot.mx/2006/02/disable-animated-gifs.html

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I also played around on Firefox, and discovered you can load the gif (if you're curious as to what it's about) by right-clicking on it and choosing 'show image info'. Neat, huh?

Comments

[stargatesg1971.livejournal.com]

Neat tip, thanks for sharing it.

[dimity-blue.livejournal.com]

You're welcome! Handy, isn't it?

[stargatesg1971.livejournal.com]

Yeah, not that I've used it yet mind you LOL.