.gif playback

[DarkStarr]

Can we get an option at the least, even if not default to prevent .gif files from playing until loaded? I have a beta of FF that had this and I liked it a ton. They have since removed it and with australius incoming I switched over to PM. I have no idea how difficult this would be to add so if its too much no big deal, just a neat feature I miss from the beat. (I got used to it and it was nice not having the laggy frames)

[Moonchild]

Can you dig out which beta it was, exactly, or, even better, find out which bugzilla bug this was related to?

[DarkStarr]

I have a copy of the installer. I think I also found info on what the deal was behind it. Evidently it was a bug/glitch. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=899861

[Moonchild]

Yeah, loading the entire animated gif before starting the animation is definitely a bug. Looking at it in more detail though, I noticed a different issue with them in the current code base that needs to be addressed, as it doesn't seem to draw the first frame completely before animating when still loading. I'll have a look into that.

[Ryrynz]

If you could fix this it would be a pretty big deal and a huge win. Nobody likes watching stuttering GIFs as they load, it's a major peeve of many users.

[DarkStarr]

Hell yea it would. That's why I miss it. Also pretty funny that a bug caused it to not play until loaded.

[Moonchild]

I have a copy of the installer. I think I also found info on what the deal was behind it. Evidently it was a bug/glitch. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=899861

Actually, looking into that, that's completely unrelated as it doesn't affect the v24 code base (status-firefox24: unaffected)

What is the problem is that the current code base decodes images in much too small bits at a time (because the UX team has been pushing the UI responsiveness ahead of actual content processing too drastically). I think I have a solution for it, but I need some good material to test this.
Please throw me some problematic URLs and/or images?

Note to self: check bug #666352

[Ryrynz]

http://maxgif.com/9Nw

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-kGXM ... ud_p20.gif

http://ai.kurotorobert.com/avatars/starDance.gif

http://content.ytmnd.com/content/b/f/c/ ... 385221.gif

That'll about do it.

Having just the first frame show until completely loaded would be nice.

[Moonchild]

Um, so, the issue is that you're dealing with a slow server to serve (some of) these images, and "animating as they are streamed" has the first loop through being a slower frame rate? Not much I can do about that since it's inherent to asynchronous image animation. (Note, for me only 2 of these images had a slow "first loop", the other two didn't).

Pausing the images until they are completely loaded may be something I can look into as an option, but it'll be relatively low priority and would be very much a user preference. For most uses, starting animation as soon as frames are ready would probably be preferred.

The thing I looked into myself is unrelated to this and related to a different problem with decoding animated gifs, so you can ignore what I said above about that.

[Ryrynz]

Um, so..

Yes

Not much I can do

Ah..oh well.

Pausing the images until they are completely loaded may be something I can look into as an option

I like your thinking.

but it'll be relatively low priority

Okay

The thing I looked into myself is unrelated to this and related to a different problem with decoding animated gifs, so you can ignore what I said above about that.

Consider it Ignored.

[DarkStarr]

I dunno if I mentioned but the build that had this bug/feature was 25a1. It was only there for a short time though.

[Moonchild]

I dunno if I mentioned but the build that had this bug/feature was 25a1. It was only there for a short time though.

As said it's irrelevant to Pale Moon as it uses a different code base.

[asmian]