821011 - find a way to disable animated personas

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Theme, defect)

Description

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

Bug 650968 kind of did this half-way: once we apply the cropping, we lose the animation (since we just crop the first frame). But there are still cases where we show the animation (e.g. during preview, before a restart), and so that leads to inconsistent behavior (bug 819190).

I'm not sure what the best way to do this is - perhaps a CSS style that prevents an animated image from being animated?

Comment 1

[Jorge Villalobos [:jorgev] (he/him)]

How about cropping the image right after installing?

Comment 2

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

That doesn't help with preview though - we can't do cropping on the fly like that. I spoke to #gfx about this and Seth suggested that it may be relatively easy using the temporal media fragment he has been working on. I think he was going to file a bug about that and land it relatively soon.

Comment 3

[Kris Maglione [:kmag]]

If we could add a CSS property to disable animations, that would probably be incredibly useful to certain extensions.

Comment 4

[Seth Fowler [:seth] [:s2h]]

I've opened a bug for supporting temporal media fragments for animated images at bug 821571.

Comment 5

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

We stopped calling the theme based "Personas" that name several years back, when they were also integrated into normal themes in Firefox.

Therefore bulk-closing Persona related bugs as they are no longer valid. If you are still having a potentially related issue in the latest version of Firefox, please take a look on our support site (https://support.mozilla.org) or file a new issue.