{"id":16,"date":"2008-03-06T16:12:41","date_gmt":"2008-03-06T06:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chuchuva.com\/pavel\/2008\/03\/how-to-turn-off-animations-in-firefox\/"},"modified":"2009-12-10T14:26:57","modified_gmt":"2009-12-10T04:26:57","slug":"how-to-turn-off-animations-in-firefox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chuchuva.com\/pavel\/2008\/03\/how-to-turn-off-animations-in-firefox\/","title":{"rendered":"How to turn off animations in Firefox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t bear having something moving on a web page. It just distracts my attention while I&#8217;m reading. Here&#8217;s how to disable most of animations in Firefox:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Open about:config page, set image.animation_mode to <strong>none<\/strong>. This will disable gif animation.<\/li>\n<li>Disable blinking. On about:config page, set browser.blink_allowed to <strong>false<\/strong>. Now &lt;blink&gt; tag doesn&#8217;t blink anymore.<\/li>\n<li>Disable Flash but not completely. Flash animations seldom carry useful information but most often are used for ads. I installed <a href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/addon\/10\">Adblock<\/a> and added <strong>.swf<\/strong> to filter list. If some site doesn&#8217;t work without Flash I add it to white list.<\/li>\n<li>Some sites use JavaScript to display animation. For example: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xe.com\/ucc\/convert.cgi?Amount=1&amp;From=EUR&amp;To=USD\">xe.com<\/a>. In these cases <a href=\"http:\/\/noscript.net\/\">NoScript<\/a> extension might help but more and more sites now rely heavily on Ajax and hence on JavaScript so it&#8217;s too much trouble to white-list sites as you surf the Web.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t bear having something moving on a web page. It just distracts my attention while I&#8217;m reading. Here&#8217;s how to disable most of animations in Firefox: Open about:config page, set image.animation_mode to none. This will disable gif animation. Disable blinking. On about:config page, set browser.blink_allowed to false. Now &lt;blink&gt; tag doesn&#8217;t blink anymore. Disable &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/chuchuva.com\/pavel\/2008\/03\/how-to-turn-off-animations-in-firefox\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How to turn off animations in Firefox<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuchuva.com\/pavel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuchuva.com\/pavel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuchuva.com\/pavel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuchuva.com\/pavel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuchuva.com\/pavel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chuchuva.com\/pavel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuchuva.com\/pavel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuchuva.com\/pavel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuchuva.com\/pavel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}