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Animated GIF in Firefox not working

8 posts · originally from https://geek.digit.in/community/threads/animated-gif-in-firefox-not-working.4546/

tuxfan
tuxfan Original post #1
Jan 11, 2005 at 11:33 AM
I use Firefox 1.0. The problem is that whenever I am online, the GIF files don't animate :( The same files animate when I open pages from HD. Any idea why this happens?
alib_i
alib_i #2
Jan 11, 2005 at 6:01 PM
must be your firewall ...
Last time this happened to me .. it was my ZoneAlarm which was stopping the animations from playing ..
It is a move against those horrible ads .. you can disable it.

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alibi
aadipa
aadipa #3
Jan 12, 2005 at 12:16 AM
It may be firewall, or proxi

Proxomitron does it and that gave me lot of problems
djmykey
djmykey #4
Jan 12, 2005 at 8:16 AM
Wow i dont have both of them but still some of them dont animate any suggestions ??
tuxfan
tuxfan #5
Jan 12, 2005 at 12:09 PM
alib_i said:
must be your firewall ...
Last time this happened to me .. it was my ZoneAlarm which was stopping the animations from playing ..
It is a move against those horrible ads .. you can disable it.

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alibi
Click to expand...

:shock: You could be right!! I just upgraded zonealarm. But I can't disable firewall just for animations in browser. There must be some better (read more secure) way of doing it.
alib_i
alib_i #6
Jan 12, 2005 at 5:48 PM
ohh no ..
no need to disable zone alarm ..

Go to
Privacy -> Ad Blocking -> Custom -> uncheck Animation
This solved the problem for me !!

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alibi
tuxfan
tuxfan #7
Jan 13, 2005 at 11:48 AM
I have already done that yesterday. Thanks. :)
tuxfan
tuxfan #8
Jan 14, 2005 at 11:46 AM
:cry: The animation are not working in spite of changing the setting. Now I will have to once again dig thru the options once again :( Or will wait till the 15 day trial period of ZoneAlarm Pro expires.