Unlike Macromedia Flash movies, you cannot right click a GIF animation to stop it from playing over and over again.
Here's a very simple trick to prevent GIF graphics from animating in your web browser window - once the web page has stopped loading and GIF frames start to animate, just hit the ESC key on your keyboard. [test live]
That will immediately disable all the GIF animations on that webpage. In order to replay the animated images, you'll have to reload the page by pressing F5 or Ctrl+R.
If you want to permanently block GIF animations in your browser, do the following:
In Firefox - Type about:config and change the value of string image.animation_mode from normal to none.
In Internet Explorer - Tools -> Options -> Advance. Uncheck the box in Multimedia group that says "Play animations in web pages"
Unrelated: Create Animated GIF Images Online
Find this article at: http://labnol.blogspot.com/2007/08/how-to-stop-gif-image-animations-from.html
web: http://www.labnol.org/ email: amit@labnol.org
Reader Comments
nice tips :D thanks for sharing.....
Written on 19/8/07 9:33 AM
Great tip, thanks!
Written on 19/8/07 3:40 PM
its really nice and yet simple... i think i have heard this before just could not recall..anyway gud job!
Written on 19/8/07 6:15 PM
works , great :-)
Written on 19/8/07 3:43 PM
A nifty firefox add-on is "anidisable" (animation disable).
http://www.siliconmethod.com/firefox/anidisable/
I use it all the time. It is in the context menu - and you have have three choices
- normal
- once
- none
I usually set it to "none" - unless there's an animation I actually *want* to see...
Written on 23/8/07 7:13 PM