NaveWeiss's Journal: Finally - animations can be stopped in Mozilla

One of the most annoying things in Mozilla was the inability to stop animations (you could disable GIF animation altogether, but still, sometimes there are animations which are worth seeing - especially in comic sites). In Netscape 4- and IE you could always stop them with ESC, but it wasn't possible to do that in Mozilla.

You could stop animations in the nightly builds for a while, but now it's finally implemented in 1.5RC1 version. Yes yes! Goodbye flashing "IF THIS BANNER IS FLASHING YOU'RE A WINNER" banners! I won't have to use IE for annoying sites like that anymore.

Now, would anyone write some extension that stops (or pauses) flash animation as well? Update (22.09.2003) moncyb pointed me to an extension that does a similar thing: It shows a "click to play" button for flash objects instead of letting the browser to play them by default.

Flash

[moncyb]

Now, would anyone write some extension that stops (or pauses) flash animation as well?

There is a plugin which will keep flash from playing until you click it. I think it's somewhere on the mozilla.org site, but I can't find it. I think it was called "click to view" or something like that... ...a little searching turned up this page [mielczarek.org] and this one [mozdev.org] they appear to be the same thing...not sure if it works or how to install the file, but perhaps it is what you want?

There is also an alternative GPLed flash plu [swift-tools.net]

It works!

[NaveWeiss]

I clicked on the mozdev link and it installed itself without a problem. Maybe it fails to work under linux, but it works great here. Although I'm not sure I like this approach much, because I want to see ads by default and disable them only if they are obnoxious.

I am a programmer, but I'm not too lazy to modify other's code.

Thanks!

Re:It works!

[moncyb]

Well, I tried the ted.mielczarek.org site first, and it just sprayed a bunch of garbage on the screen. Wrong mime type? So on the other site, I just right clicked and used save link as (I wanted to know if they were the same--they are really zip files BTW). After I figured it out, doing opening the file sort of worked. It tried to install but gave an error. I just switched to Firebird. Maybe It isn't compatible?

I tried some of the other extensions, and they work great. You may want to look through them. S