259779 - Feature request: Animated images: disable/enable/once preferences setting

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 227886

(Firefox :: Settings UI, enhancement)

Description

[rvalles]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040916 Firefox/0.10
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040916 Firefox/0.10

Animated images are very popular in the WWW. Sometimes, they can get annoying. A
setting to avoid them from animating, or to allow them just once, would be very
helpful.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

the pref exists, we don't have UI for this.

Comment 2

[Jo Hermans]

Note that pressing escape works (see bug 213377).

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 227886 ***

Comment 3

[Galileo Vidoni]

"the pref exists, we don't have UI for this."., "Note that pressing escape works
(see bug 213377)."

If I understood well, Firefox is supposed to be easy to use and to allow the
user to browse as he wants, contrarly to IE.

Although the preference exists, about:config is nothing but a cryptic place for
users. Also, the users have no way to know that pressing Escape will stop the
animations, and if eventually they discover it, it won't work for other sites,
so they would have to be repeating operation everytime.

Comment 4

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

sorry for bugspam, long-overdue mass reassign of ancient QA contact bugs,
filter on "beltznerLovesGoats" to get rid of this mass change