The gifs were actually causing Firefox to periodically freeze for me. For some reason it worked in reader mode, even though the gifs were still shown. This make

The gifs were actually causing Firefox to periodically freeze for me. For some reason it worked in reader mode, even though the gifs were still shown. This makes no sense to me, but in the end whatever was going on with the gifs initially caused the article to not only be unreadable but to negatively affect my entire browser. As such, I think it's reasonable to point this out in this case.