Anyway to disable gifs?

[Anno Domini]

Was wondering if someone could add to preferences the ability to disable gifs? My computer is about 5 years old and it dies if a thread is loaded with gifs. Seen the feature on other forums in the past. I understand if its not possible with all the features and upgrades already added. I'm probably the only person dealing with this problem.

I use chrome and i added a extension awhile back called ''no gifs''. It seems to have not worked or never did haha. Just saying i tried to do something on my own before asking for assistance. Thanks if you can help or not.

Also if there is already a way to disable gifs in the threads sorry.

 

[dacofty]

Hell my laptop is relatively new quad core with all bells and whistles and it struggles with the animated gifs

 

[Wild]

@Splinty can answer this

 

[Deleted member 1]

Can you link me to a thread causes you trouble?


Many gifs are actually gfycat or imgur gifv -- these are html5 videos and are the future of where animations are going. They are smaller in size and higher quality than GIFs


What can I do? I could block everyone from posting (not gonna happen), I could limit the number of images per post so that not so many can be posted at once (I don't think that's a common occurence), I can set the page to load and delay the loading of the media embeds (I just did this to see how it will help if any). This last option might help you, but I worry its going to mess up the experience for anyone on a fast internet connection. The page won't load all the other embeds down the line ahead of time. It will wait until the user scrolls down to them
I CAN'T easily give you a switch on and off


What can you do? Look for plugins for gfycat and imgur because many of your gifs are actually those.

Try these:

How to Disable Annoying Autoplay Media in Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Internet Explorer « Digiwonk


I'll keep investigating this, but its a challenge as users and the web want these technologies and we've just given a way to play with them.

 

[Morpheushasleftthebuilding]

{offtopic} i have an 8 year old computer, any media plays fine, maybe there is something else going on?

btw. my expierence with chrome, its a memory hog, not my browser.

 

[Deleted member 1]

btw. my expierence with chrome, its a memory hog, not my browser.

This is also my experience. It's fast and great at first, but it doesn't close out old sessions. I still use it, but I'm aware that if things go slow I can usually find 20+ old browser instances running and have to close them manually.

 

[Anno Domini]

Nevermind, last night when i got home i searched many forums and solved the problems i been having with chrome and firefox for last months. I'm not as computer savvy as all of you unfortunately. Btw i didn't want you to disable gifs for the whole site. Just was wondering if you could add a block gifs feature to check or uncheck in personal preferences for everyone. Now that i think about it that would be a very hard feature to add.

Anyways thanks for the replies and help!

 

[Deleted member 1]

Can you tell us the fix just in case others have the same problem? glad you figured it out.