Ban Animated Avatars?

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Pyrite
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Ban Animated Avatars?

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Just my vote ... they are annoying and make me dizzy. :twisted: :x
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My view is that it's up to users to do what they want with the alloted bandwidth.

However it might be good to have an option to allow low-bandwidth users to toggle ALL avatars on/off. Of course that means persuading someone to take time out to do the necessary mods 8O.
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<moz_evangalism>
Get Mozilla Firebird and stop animations from playing more than once or even at all.
</moz_evangalism>

If a particular avatar is really getting irritating, e-mail or pm the owner and ask if they could tone it down a tad. If you get no joy, pm their names and I'll take a look at the situation. I know that I find the web a much more joyful place since limiting animations to one cycle.

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Post by Pyrite »

Hey I use Firebird, but where do I tell it only animate once?
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Post by McGruff »

Hunt around in "tools/more options".
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Post by twigletmac »

If you've got the Preferential extential installed go to tools->Advanced Preferences, or if not type about:config in the address bar either will do. Then scroll down to the image.animation_mode and set it to once or none. As McGruff said, if you've got the Things They Left Out extension you can do this via Tools->More Options. Of course you could also edit your user.js to set this property.

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Post by Pyrite »

Thanks! The about:config way worked. I don't have the extra leftout extensions.
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