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How to stop animated gifs in Google Chrome?

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Mar 15, 202666089 views

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I wish that the .gif files would only show the first frame and never do any animation. Also, I'd like this to work automatically (i.e. having to hit Esc as in Firefox is not enough). Is there a way of doing that in Chrome? I'm on a dev channel so I don't mind if it's an extension.

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Apparently there are now the Pause! Pause! Pause! and Stop animations Chrome extensions. Or perhaps the Stop gif animations on escape user script?

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How to stop animated gifs in Google Chrome?

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