Press Escape to stop GIF animations - NOT the typical universal on/off option

[jabcreations]

Firefox once had the option to stop GIF animations by pressing the Escape key. Reloading the page would resume GIF animations, this was not some absolute-all-browser setting, it was just a nice touch to negate ...the creations of the ...less tasteful folks who roam the Internet.

Then because drugs, they removed it.

Then because users rock, an extension was made: BetterStop which still works in Waterfox Classic to this day.

I am explicitly not referring to the option universally disable GIF animations. Is there a way to do this per tab/page load? If not, please implement this.

[DoctorG]

@jabcreations Try extension stop-animations (untested).

[kisunviikset]

How about "settings>webpages>play animations once".

[DoctorG]

@kisunviikset I thought user wanted to have the ability to stop animation at any time.

[dude99]

https://forum.vivaldi.net/post/505594

not exactly what you wanted, but these CC will give you control over when to play animation & when to stop 'em, or play animation loop only once on demand.

[jabcreations]

@DoctorG said in Press Escape to stop GIF animations - NOT the typical universal on/off option:

@jabcreations Try extension stop-animations (untested).

Kept for historical purposes, skip this and see my next post!

That was actually even better as you can press Escape a second time to resume, very cool and exactly what I was hoping to come across!

Now occasionally good things disappear and I don't tolerate that so after a little research I came across CRX Extractor/Downloader:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/crx-extractordownloader/ajkhmmldknmfjnmeedkbkkojgobmljda

It lets you go to the page of an extension for Chromium based browsers and save the CRX files. It did not require a browser restart, I visited the URL, clicked the grey CRX extension icon, clicked on the grey text that said "Download as CRX" and I had a local backup of the extension! I used this extension on both the GIF animation extension and for itself of course.

So, thank you for making my life just that much more cooperative.

[jabcreations]

@DoctorG I ended up wasting three hours because of this extension (in regards to web development). It takes a freaking screenshot and dump it over the entire website! I thought Blink has implemented some super-lazy screenshot "feature". I actually realized this when I went looking for any hidden extension (hidden as in the user isn't "allowed" to see BS attitude). So my bad on accepting that extension.

So, I'm back looking for suggestions please..

[Pathduck]

@jabcreations
I'm assuming you're talking about the "stop-animations" extension here and not the "crx-extractor"? Because it's not really clear from your above edit - it seems like you're talking about the latter.

It takes a freaking screenshot and dump it over the entire website!

Yes, you're right!
Well, that's one way to "solve" it I guess!

This one seems to work OK, it replaces all GIFs with a canvas object (but kind of ugly, source can probably be hacked into something useful)
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/gifnope/pdfehigndohfngfifgopmikehakdhakm/

This one seems most like what you want though:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/animation-policy/ncigbofjfbodhkaffojakplpmnleeoee
Too bad there's no context menu, so you'll need to click the icon or use a hotkey.

Source: https://www.ghacks.net/2017/06/27/how-to-block-animated-images-in-google-chrome/

Other than that, instead of waiting for others to suggest, I propose you do a simple search on the Chrome Web Store and start from there:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/search/gif?_category=extensions