225348 - ESC key should stop animated images (GIFs) for the current page (like IE)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 213377

(Core Graveyard :: Image: Painting, enhancement)

Description

[Chris Peterson [:cpeterson]]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 Firebird/0.7
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 Firebird/0.7

IE lets the user press the ESC key to stop animation on the current page

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. go to a web page with animated images, such as the Hamster Dance:
http://www.webhamster.com/
2. watch the animated images
3. press the ESC key to try to stop animation for the current page (like IE)

Actual Results:  
nothing happened. The animations continue.

Expected Results:  
animations should stop for the current page (like IE)

Comment 1

[Olivier Cahagne]

assuming you only have this issue with FB, not Mozilla (bug 70030), please
reopen if you also experience this issue with Mozilla.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 213377 ***