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How come GIF animation doesn't loop in v8.01?

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My GIF animation doesn't loop as it suppose to when using firefox to view. Other browsers I tried doesn't have this problem and work as it should.

My GIF animation doesn't loop as it suppose to when using firefox to view. Other browsers I tried doesn't have this problem and work as it should.

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Please provide a public URL or reduced test case that exhibits this issue.

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I've checked and it's set to 'normal'

It doesn't loop be it i open from a webpage or open the file directly with firefox.

Maybe you can try this link, it's suppose to loop once more so the animation plays 2 times.

GIF file 2 loops

It doesn't happen in my firefox browser but with safari or opera it is ok.

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Some more info if it'll help. My gif was done in photoshop cs4, I'm running FF 8.01 on OSX Leopard 10.5.8 on an imac

Modified by sadwitch

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Anybody has a solution? Would be most please to hear it

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I'm not seeing it looping in the current Nightly build (11.0a1) either, so that looks like a problem with that particular GIF image or a bug.
It works in Firefox 3.6.24, but not in Firefox 4+ versions that I've tried.

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Thanks for the response. I was thinking if all other browsers have no problem including earlier versions of Firefox... I would think there may be some sort of a bug in 8.01. Can I file for a bug report here?

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Similar problem here. With my animated gif, I am getting one less loop than I've specified. So if I specify 3, I get 2 loops in Firefox etc. Works correctly in all other browsers I've tested.

Attached gif is set to loop 3 times.

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Whoops - didn't realize my gif in the example above would be converted to a png

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Having this issue too. Set Looping Times to 3 in Photoshop 5.1 when I saved it to an animated GIF. It only plays twice in Firefox 12.0 on OS X 10.7.4. Plays correctly in Safari and Chrome.

Animation is enabled : image.animation_mode;normal

Lennert

Modified by lennert