animated gif's "inanimated"

[PlutonianEmpire]

Earlier last month (last month being august 2005), my mom reformated my computer in order to get rid of stuff that had infected me.

Now, for some reason, smilies that are supposed to be animated are not doing anything.

anyone know why?

 

[kcwong]

What program are you using to view the GIFs?

 

[PlutonianEmpire]

I was talking about when I brows the internet and read forums, that's what I meant. Sorry for not mentioning that earlier.

 

[classical_hero]

Perhaps it is a firewal issue, because I had a similar problem but having deleting it and reinstalling it, I see the animated gifs fine.

 

[PlutonianEmpire]

Ah. I see.

 

[funxus]

I think I used to have that problem in Opera when I used that. Not in IE or Firefox though. Which browser are you using?

 

[PlutonianEmpire]

Firefox, mainly.

 

[Aphex_Twin]

my mom reformated my computer in order to get rid of stuff that had infected me.

Pornopathy?

 

[The Last Conformist]

Hell, I got 3 data miners from ads at microsoft.com this monday. Malware is pretty much unavoidable these days.

 

[kcwong]

Firefox, mainly.

Is animations from anywhere not playing properly, or only from certain sites, or certain times? If the image is not completly downloaded, you will most likely only see its first frame - resulting in a still image.

If you have a GIF in your harddrive, drag it into your FireFox window. It should play the animation. That should rule out the possibility that your FireFox installation is malfunctioning...

 

[PlutonianEmpire]

As it turns out, it was a firewall blocking the smilie's animations on the web. problem's all fixed now.

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For now, anyway... *DUN DUN DUNNN!!!*