Turning off annoying emoticons

jcwren

Is there any way to disable these annoying in-motion emoticons? I hate to add a rule to my firewall to block them, as that only solves the problem at home.

I don't have epilepsy, but I did, I think this one would trigger it.

--jc

Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi)

Your browser will have a setting that allows you to disable image animations, probably on a site-by-site basis. I just turned off your jumping lizard (or whatever that thing is) in Opera by unchecking Site Preferences -> Content -> Enable Animated Images.

-Phil

jcwren

Unfortunately, Chrome does not support this. Maybe it's time to learn how to write Chrome extensions...

I was an early adopter of Opera, and then moved to Firefox. I don't remember why I switched. Maybe it was AdBlock. Then I moved to Chrome. Now Chrome has extensions, one of which is AdBlock. If I can just get rid of animated icons on a site by site basis, it'd be so shiny you'd need sunglasses.

--jc

davejames

...hmmmm, this made me wonder how to disable the little beasties in IE8. So, for those interested:

Tools
·· -Internet Options
····· -Advanced
········ -Multimedia section
··········· ->uncheck "Play animations in webpages"

The above requires a close/open of IE8.


Later,

DJ

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