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It would be marvelous if Noscript could provide a means to terminate the animation of animated GIFs. They drive me nuts. Maybe this post should go to Firefox itself, but I have a hunch the kind souls that provide this plugin might be more motivated to help. Could be done one at a time, or even better, once and for all.

You can disable animation inside Firefox by going to about:config and locate image.animation_mode and it is set to normal by default, change it to none for no animation ever, once to animate once and stop. Take your pick.

The ESC key used to stop animated GIFs, but FF determined that that action was actually a bug so it no longer works in FF.
(Still works in SeaMonkey.)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c ... imated.gif

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo ... superstop/

Why is the overhead of an extension necessary?

Because the people at Mozilla thought the ESC button should be capturable by webpages, and also because "no one used it".

GµårÐïåñ wrote:Why is the overhead of an extension necessary?

Because Mozilla.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=614304
Proposal for built-in shift+esc got WONTFIX: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=824248

I understand that and I guess if you want to be able to decide if and when to cancel animation that would be worth the overhead but for those who just want it gone without fuss, there is an option that can be set natively to handle animation, animate once and stop and just don't animate. Just saying from efficiency perspective, if the person knows their behavior, then this will be easier. Keyboard shortcuts and hotkeys are generally unreliable and can result in conflicts.