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Am I imagining things or once-upon-a-time did Firefox give you the ability to advance GIFs frame by frame?
by fbdab103 3y ago
Am I imagining things or once-upon-a-time did Firefox give you the ability to advance GIFs frame by frame?
- rzzzt 3y agoPressing Esc did stop the animation, but I'm not sure you could step over it.
- qup 3y agoIn the past you could freeze them and step through frames by right-clicking the image, but I can't remember which browser it was in. It was over a decade ago iirc.
- heavyset_go 3y agoI thought this was a feature for a while because image hosting sites like Imgur convert animated GIFs into videos because the compression is better, and you can adjust the playback. Some of them will even keep '.gif' in the URL despite serving you a video instead.
- causi 3y agoThis is particularly infuriating when you're trying to use google image search to find a gif to embed in an html frame that doesn't accept videos and all you get are gifs that turn out to be videos.
- heavyset_go 3y agoYup, and the titular GIPHY doesn't even embed GIFs.