128180 - cannot stop animation

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 70030

(Core :: Graphics: ImageLib, defect)

Description

[christophe vial]

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.8+)
Gecko/20020227
BuildID:    2002022703

When a page conatains a lot of animated gif, there is no way to stop the
animations by pressing the stop button or typing Esc....

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.load an animated image (Debug-> Viewer Demo -> #10 for instance)
2.The stop button is inactive, nothing available in the menu to stop the animations
3.The Escape doesn't stop the anymation

Actual Results:  Can slow down the machine when a lot of animations are going on
on one page....
And it is sometime pretty difficult to concentrate on the text or the important
information when there is too many animations..

Expected Results:  Allow the user to stop the animations (at it was possible in
the version 4.7X of netscape)

Comment 1

[Shark Daddy (Jonathan L.)]

Sure, a good idea, to be able to stop animations by e.g. right-clicking and
selecting something, or doing something akin to IE6; you can hold the cursor
over the object for a few seconds and a menu pops up, but call this an
enhancement, it's not a normal bug. I would change it, but I'm not allowed
yet...If you really want to, BTW, you can go to Preferences | Privacy & Security
| Images, and tell it to loop images once. That should work for animated .gifs.

Comment 2

[christophe vial]

It is a lost of functionality to not have a simple access by just clicking on
"stop" or using "Escape" as it is since the begining in Netscape....

Thanks for the preference setting (I didn't searched in Prvacy & security since
I don't see the relation with "being able to stop an animation").

This setting is good to not slow down the machine, but then you loose all the
animations (since you probably won't be able to see some of them if they run
only once)... the fancy solution of "when I let my sursor on the image...." are
really too fancy to be really usefull... the basic solution of being able to say
"stop" in one key-press or one click is a lot more convenient in most of the
cases.

Thanks.

Comment 3

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 70030 ***

Comment 4

[Diego Biurrun]

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