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how to stop animated gifs from blinking, ESC key no longer working

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RNMonkeyBSN
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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!

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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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cor-el
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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)

RNMonkeyBSN
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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)!