On Mon, 22 Apr 2002 12:54:14 -0700, shane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Monday 22 April 2002 11:18, Miark opened a general hailing frequency and
> transmitted to all open stations:
>
> > Some of the sites that I visit with Konqueror have animated
> > icons that drive my CPC through the roof, which I monitor
> > using kcpuload. In fact there's one at Mandrake Club that
> > causes this to happen. When I right-click the offending gif
> > and choose "stop animations", then all is fine again.
> >
> > Anyone else experience this? Any comments? (Other than "switch
> > browsers" :-)
>
> actually that is one of the reasons i prefer konq, i can tell it to stop
> animations. it would be nice if you could set the default to animate once
> only or something....
Netscape 4 can also stop animations (but who wants to use that nowadays?).
Mozilla and Galeon have an option of animating GIFs only once (or not at all).
You can also try a filter proxy like Webwasher or Privoxy. They can (inter alia)
make GIFs animate only once.
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Sridhar Dhanapalan
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