Turning off animation?

[Daniel Albano (1)]

On Wed, 30 Oct 1996, Erwin Wodarczak wrote:

> Is there any way to turn off animated GIFs - i.e. de-animate them - i.e.
> KILL THEM???
> 
> 99% of them are only cute the first time.  Afterwards, not only are they
> annoying, but their constant re-loading seems to interfere with anything
> else I want to do while viewing the document in question.
> 
> I'm using Netscape 2 at the moment, by the way.
> 
> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
> 

	My usual approach to "taming the web" involves 
	turning off autoload of images, and only explicitly
	loading those images that look like they have 
	useful information.  If you guess wrong, you can 
	back out of the page, flush your disk and memory
	cache, then re-enter it.  I agree that there should
	be an "unload image" command; that would make life
	far more civilized, and the whole thing far more
	practical as a means of getting real data, rather
	than someone's idea of an "interesting" picture. 

	- Daniel



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