873881 - Re-add a way to stop gif-animations

Status: REOPENED

(Firefox :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Dieter Hansen]

It's serious, so I make it short:
If Firefox doesn't re-add a way to stop gif-animations like it worked before with the ESC-key, our ways will split after over 10 years.

I will not install an addon for this. 

I prefer practical usabillity in core aspects of handling.

I just was on a page with a quite simple gif on the left, just two frames. I couldn't read the main text, as I was distracted. 

Removing the former handling of this issue was absolutly awful.

I'm very disappointed.

Comment 1

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

FYI, there's a hidden pref image.animation_mode that you can set in about:config
see http://kb.mozillazine.org/Firefox_:_FAQs_:_About:config_Entries

Comment 2

[Hani Yacoub, Desktop QA]

I couldn't manage to reproduce this issue. Since the bug was logged 9 years ago, most likely isn't reproducible anymore for the reporter also.
Closing this bug as resolved: Worksforme.

Comment 3

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

Seems pretty easy to reproduce for me, just visit any page with animated GIFs and notice there is no way to stop them.
Example page: https://bestanimations.com/Humans/Humans.html

AFAICT, there is no option in Settings to opt out from animations like these either (other than the hidden pref mentioned above).

Comment 4

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

In the process of migrating remaining bugs to the new severity system, the severity for this bug cannot be automatically determined. Please retriage this bug using the new severity system.

Comment 5

[Hsin-Yi Tsai (she/her) [:hsinyi]]

Trying to move to a better component ...

Comment 6

[Timothy Nikkel (:tnikkel)]

Imagelib is more low level and it has a way to stop animations, just not hooked up to something a user can trigger, so the Firefox product might be the best place for this?