84740 - cannot stop animated gifs

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 70030

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Dan]

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.2.16-3 i686; en-US; rv:0.9.1)
Gecko/20010607
BuildID:    2001060713

Animated gifs cannot be stoped hsing the "Esc" key, or the Edit/Stop menu, or
righ-click on the image, and choose "Stop" from that menu. 



Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Visit http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/
2.Try to stop the animated gifs using either the "Esc" key
3.or the View/Stop menu

Actual Results:  The gifs still annimate.

Expected Results:  The gifs should stop.

This has worked in previous versions of Mozilla and in Netscape 3.x and 4.x

Animated gifs are annoying, being able to stop them is a very important feature.

A more useful feature would be a checkbox in the Image preferences dialog box to
disable them entirely. I know there's a magic javascript
incantation that could do that, but it's not good enough.

Comment 1

[R.K.Aa.]

Dup of bug 70030 by way of bug 78036

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 70030 ***

Comment 2

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

verified dupe