Open Bug 1938836 Opened 2 months ago Updated 2 months ago

Provide way to suppress animations on incoming emails

Categories

(Thunderbird :: Untriaged, enhancement)

Thunderbird 128
enhancement

Tracking

(Not tracked)

UNCONFIRMED

People

(Reporter: docorbit, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:133.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/133.0

Steps to reproduce:

  1. Received and opened an email containing an animated GIF with endless repeat.
  2. In the Thunderbird menu, I chose Settings.
  3. In the Settings search field, I typed "anim"

Actual results:

  1. The animated GIF endlessly repeated.
  2. n/a
  3. There are no preferences to choose to not animate or not repeat animated GIFs.

Expected results:

  1. Before I set the preference: The animated GIF endlessly repeats.
    After I set the preference:
    If I set not repeat, it plays once and stops.
    If I set not play, it doesn't play.
  2. n/a
  3. A setting is available, similar to Firefox's image.animation_mode none, once, normal.

Add step 1.5: Download images.
Note: The email actually contained multiple animated GIFs, not just one. While there is sort of a workaround to scroll past (provided the GIFs are not so close together with content in between that I can't avoid them) it's annoying to have to do the extra and fine-tuned scrolling.

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