Escape in Firefox not stopping animations

[Michael Rawson]

On 27/07/13 11:37, Lars Noodén wrote:
> Earlier in Firefox, it was possible to stop animations by pressing
> Escape.  Now it won't stop anything.  Are other people seeing this
> problem?
>
> Here is one animated GIF that won't stop:
>
> http://laughingsquid.com/internet-census-2012-an-illegally-obtained-animated-map-of-the-web/
>
> But there are others including more and more ads.  I know that escape
> used to stop at least the animated GIFs.  However, the current version
> of Firefox seems broken and have no way to stop animated GIFs from
> cycling.
>
> How can I get FF to stop running the animation?
>
> Regards,
> /Lars
>
Hi Lars,

I believe this is an intentional change. See the mozilla ticket here: 
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=825486

Apparently there are firefox plug-ins for bringing the behaviour back.

Cheers,

Michael