300280 - gif animation stop when clicking scrollbar or navigating menus

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 299643

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

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User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b3) Gecko/20050710 Firefox/1.0+ (PowerBook)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b3) Gecko/20050710 Firefox/1.0+ (PowerBook)

Animated gif images stop animating when you click and hold the scrollbar or when
you navigate the menus (bookmarks etc...).


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open a website with an animate gif image (ex. the test link above).
2. Click and hold the scrollbar or navigate the menus.


Actual Results:  
gif animation stops

Expected Results:  
gif animation continue


I have seen this problem for a long time.
But waited for bug 269388 to be fixed, since I thought it was related. But it
obviously was not...

Comment 1

[José Jeria]

Note that Safari does the same

Comment 2

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

Dupe of bug 299643 ?

Comment 3

[Asaf Romano (gone)]

indeed.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 299643 ***