103166 - Animated images "never" choice ignored

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 199045

(Core :: Layout: Images, Video, and HTML Frames, defect)

Description

[Kurt Swanson]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20010917
BuildID:    2001091712

Having chosen "never" animate images in preferences, this image will animate and
loop.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Set animated images to "never" in prefs
2. Go to http://www.fasttrack.nu/index_int.html
3. Click on "products" link


Actual Results:  Animated gif

Expected Results:  No animation

I believe this is a javascript related problem

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

confirming with win2k build 200101004..
-> Imagelib (?)

Comment 2

[basic]

with moz I don't see a products link.
and I don't see any GIFs being animated.
seems to work for me

Comment 3

[Martin Tomasek]

confirmed for Mozilla Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.9)
Gecko/20020320
(Mozilla Debian Package 2:0.9.9-2)

more details:
at http://www.osud.cz/magazin/ even if  animate images set to 'never' or 'once'
background
image is still animated

background image is set through <table ... style="color: white;
background-image: url('someimage.gif'); background-repeat: no-repeat;"  ... >

Comment 4

[jsoffer]

I've noticed that, when an images still animates despite of the preference,
reloading the page stops the animation.

For example, at the www.opengl.org forums, the "hot topic" icon animates, but
reloading the page it stops.

Comment 5

[Carl Hage]

I have observed this bug in nightly Phoenix 2003/04/07 and Mozilla:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030401.

The Animated Images Looping setting seems to be ignored intermittently.
Usually it works, so it is difficult to reproduce. I don't know how
often animations fail to disable, but probably this bug occurs <10%
of the time.

As others have reported, reloading the image corrects the problem. It appears
as if the animation control is done while originally loading the image before
it is saved in the cache, and image preference is ignored when displaying
the results. This is a separate bug-- animation looping preference should
be obeyed each time an image is rendered.

Even though animation preference is affected by the cache, misleading
one when reproducing the problem, the bug is still present. Even when
erasing the cache and leaving animation looping set never, animated images
still occur.

This appears to be the same bug as 200557.

Comment 6

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

This is fixed in current builds.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 199045 ***