Animated Gif's No More!

Ahh my eyes

[xcandyman]

What a great browser phoenix is! One of my fave features is to stop all animated gifs from running.

My eyes are now safe from flashing, irrating, banners YAY!

What is your fave feature of Phoenix / Mozilla ( except popup killer )

Steve

[limbo]

This makes me a little unhappy :( (and a bit off topic)

I purposely use very subtle animated GIFs to enhance quality of pages so users don't have to wait for Flash.

They dont flash, blink or twitter and I spend alot of time ensuring the file size is low. Usally they only run once or trigger by onclick or rollover.

It's a shame so many sites employ them for the wrong reasons, with little or no visual appeal forcing users to diasble what can, IMO, enhance the experiece.

<rant> over </rant>

[seindal]

I use the intermediate setting, where an animation is allowed to run once, but not to loop. That's a kind of middle of the road compromise.

René.

[WibbleWobble]

What is your fave feature of Phoenix?

Extentions. They're fantastic.

[DrDoc]

Well, if I ever use an animated gif I always make sure that its initial state is something I could live with. Therefore, if someone turns animation off, they won't know the difference.

But, why use animated gifs when you can use CSS as well as other options?

[bird]

Better make sure that the end state of the animation also looks somewhat meaningful. Otherwise, people who do like seindal (and me with Mozilla) may end up with a strange looking display.

[seindal]

Often the last frame is blank!

[markdidj]

I used gif animations for my rollovers, which extended from the initial button, making it grow and words appear.

the size of the animation was 6 frames, each about 1.5k, but one needed for in, and one for out, 12frames at 3k.
I swapped that for javascript and css, reducing the animations to 1/10th of the size, now 300bytes each.

so long as the getElementById works, the sliders work.
I would recommend preloading your images and creating the animation in JS, its alot faster.

And if you know your positioning, only change the bits of the picture that need to change. Don't just swap images, swap parts of images.

[Gusgsm]

Animated gifs: Myself I still use animated GIFs (as small as possible) to yield "moving information" and I avoid quicktime, Flash and the like.

I want to ensure most people get the info. Besides I place a caption whenever possible.

Ain't it clear I'm an old paper-disegner turned into web? ;)

[RZaakir]

I love tons of Phoenix features, but the ability disallow plugins, frames, and javascript on a per tab basis is just stellar.

Type Ahead Find and Bookmark based searches (like the default google one with Phoenix) deserve honorable mention too.

[amznVibe]

I've been using At-Guard (firewall) for years and it can stop animated gif's inside of IE. Let's them run through the routine once, and then halts them.

Symantec bought it out and bloated the heck out of it but I believe it still has the gif animation stopper. You can find the last versions of At-Guard all over internet as abandonware type of stuff. Works great even in windows2000.

[c3oc3o]

Nothing beats this feature of the Tabbrowser Extension:
"Undo close tab"!
How often have you closed a page only to realize a second later that you'd like to have it back for whatever reason? Right-click tab bar, "Undo close tab", and it's back! :-O