Animated Gif's

[rayne008]

Any ideas why animated gifs (From the Funny & Cool Pircure thread)
freeze up on Chrome but display fine in IE8?

The computer should be fine (Win 7 Pro i7 Processor with 8 GB Ram)

[psicodude]

I have the same problem, but it only seems to happen when there are several on the same page.

[Komskies]

I thought I was the only one. Anxiously awaiting a solution.

[Rathji]

It is a Chrome issue, I am pretty sure.

You can work around by right click and opening the image in a new tab. Either it will start working right away or you need to switch to the new tab and back again. At that point, any gif currently displayed will be working again, not just the one you opened.

[FanIn80]

Animated GIFs are kind of like apostrophes. They should only really be used when necessary, otherwise they just cause all sorts of problems.

[Icon]

Originally Posted by FanIn80

Animate'd GIF's are kin'd of like apo'strophe's. They 'should only really be u'se'd when nece's'sary, otherw'ise they ju's't cau'se all 'sort's of problem's.

fyp

[GreenLantern]

My Chrome randomly stopped working yesterday, it only loads blank pages. I briefly googled it but there was no big solution, they said they fixed it in August but mine was completely up to date. I was also having the GIF problem.

So I just went back to Firefox, always have preferred it anyway.

[Top Shelf]

yeah i noticed the same thing. I also noticed that if I right click the GIF and open in new tab, it always works. Wonder if it's some sort of buffer issue in Chrome...very annoying and making me think about switching back to Firefox

[FanIn80]

Originally Posted by Icon

fyp

Great. Now I'm blind and my head just exploded. On a Friday, too. Nice job.

[Burninator]

It's been like this for a couple weeks. Why hasn't Google fixed this yet?

[NuclearPizzaMan]

It's been a bug in the chromium project for a few months now. Doesn't appear to be a priority, but it has been reported many times.

[MrMastodonFarm]

Originally Posted by FanIn80

Animated GIFs are kind of like apostrophes. They should only really be used when necessary, otherwise they just cause all sorts of problems.

[Two Fivenagame]

I have the same problem but I found it was only happening in Funny or Cool thread and no other website. Is this a CP problem?

[rbochan]

It might be a tumor.

[3 Justin 3]

Originally Posted by Two Fivenagame

I have the same problem but I found it was only happening in Funny or Cool thread and no other website. Is this a CP problem?

Definitely not. It is glitchy on every website for me. A few gifs work here and there, but the majority don't.

[Two Fivenagame]

Any fixes for this?

[Zevo]

Originally Posted by Burninator

It's been like this for a couple weeks. Why hasn't Google fixed this yet?

I know nobody's really complaining, but this SNL skit popped into my head when reading this thread.

[psyang]

Hey, I sort of stumbled on a possible solution to the animated gif problem in Chrome. The issue seems to be with the Adobe Flash plugin.

Problem
Basically, Flash has an installer used for most browsers. Google, however, has its own internal installation of flash. When both are active in Google, the resulting conflict seems to cause problems: the browser will hang periodically, and animated gifs on a page where the plugin is also present will often not run. I think this is why the problem was so prevalent in the funny images thread - because most times, the page has youtube videos (flash) as well as animated gifs. Opening the gif in its own window allowed it to open on a page where the flash plugin wasn't invoked.

Solution

1. Open Chrome.
2. Type about: plugins into the url bar (remove space between : and p - putting these two together in this post displays a smiley)
3. Expand the Details link in the top-right corner (if it isn't already expanded)
4. Find Adobe Flash Player. If you are like me, you will see Shockwave Flash listed twice under the Adobe Flash Player heading. One will have a path inside C:\Windows - this is Adobe's install. The other will be in either C:\User\Apps or C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome - this is Google's.
5. Disable the Google version of the plugin. I actually didn't try disabling the Adobe version, so I'm not sure if that will work or not.
6. Restart browser.
7. Enjoy your animated gifs.

[rayne008]

Originally Posted by psyang

Hey, I sort of stumbled on a possible solution to the animated gif problem in Chrome. The issue seems to be with the Adobe Flash plugin.

Problem
Basically, Flash has an installer used for most browsers. Google, however, has its own internal installation of flash. When both are active in Google, the resulting conflict seems to cause problems: the browser will hang periodically, and animated gifs on a page where the plugin is also present will often not run. I think this is why the problem was so prevalent in the funny images thread - because most times, the page has youtube videos (flash) as well as animated gifs. Opening the gif in its own window allowed it to open on a page where the flash plugin wasn't invoked.

Solution

1. Open Chrome.
2. Type about: plugins into the url bar (remove space between : and p - putting these two together in this post displays a smiley)
3. Expand the Details link in the top-right corner (if it isn't already expanded)
4. Find Adobe Flash Player. If you are like me, you will see Shockwave Flash listed twice under the Adobe Flash Player heading. One will have a path inside C:\Windows - this is Adobe's install. The other will be in either C:\User\Apps or C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome - this is Google's.
5. Disable the Google version of the plugin. I actually didn't try disabling the Adobe version, so I'm not sure if that will work or not.
6. Restart browser.
7. Enjoy your animated gifs.

At first glance this seems to work awesomely! Thanks.

[DownInFlames]

I wonder if this will also fix the other problem I've been having with Chrome. YouTube videos have been randomly stopping early. It's worth a try I guess.