Firefox + Animations = Bad?

[SomeoneE1se]

When using firefox, if there's an animation on the page such as the new spinning avatars my CPU jumps to 100% Is this normal, or is anyone else getting this?

[Sparda]

What processor do you have?

/me expects to hear 200MHz PII ;)

[VaKo]

I might have to step in on the animated avatars thing... its fucking annoying enough as it is.

[moonlit]

Firefox does occasionally have perfomance issues with animations and flashy stuff like that. I've not had it with these animated gifs but I've had firefox start chewing my CPU a couple times with pages containing masses of animations and flash stuff.

[SomeoneE1se]

What processor do you have?

/me expects to hear 200MHz PII ;)

Intel Pentium Centrino 2.13 Ghz

before I installed adblock the flashing you've won * would bring my computer to a halt

Edit: this right here http://thepope.ytmnd.com/ my system wont even play the sound because of the picture.

[intelspeed]

this spinning avators things are pissing me off....slows the page right down when loading

[uber_tom]

this spinning avators things are pissing me off....slows the page right down when loading

I think they're kinda pretty. Can't say i noticed any slowdown, but then i was raised on dial up.

Wouldn't have one myself though 'cos it'd make me look like a dick who's just started playing with a cracked animation suite.

[Darren Kitchen]

No offense to the animated gif people but they're annoying me to the point that I added a line in my host file to block them.

If they're having a negative impact on the forum performance to our guests then I think it's time we rethink our avatar policy.

Hang on, I think I hear the kittens meowing at the door

[cooper]

I've seen this aswell, and because of it always configure Moz to only loop animated gifs once. My CPU cycles aren't worth this.