gif images in safari taking up cpu

will this issue be fixed soon on the next safari update?

Everyone here is a user like yourself, so noone knows. Make sure the Safari team are aware of the issue by sending feedback via the Safari menu > Report Bugs to Apple... feature.

I have never seen that when using gifs in Safari, but you show as using 10.5.4. Safari 4 beta requires 10.5.6 as well as the prior installation of security update 2009-001.

I'm sure you could have solved the "mystery" yourself and realized i forgot to update what OS i am currently using.

None of here are mind readers. We assume that posters realise that it is important to correctly state what Macs, operating systems, application versions etc, they are using in order for the problem to be diagnosed and hopefully solved. We cannot, and should not, simply assume that some posters are too lazy to even present their problem in an orderly way, and make wild guesses about which facts they present are correct or a complete fiction, or just sloppy thinking.

As your perceived problem with gifs is virtually unheard of, pick any of the above as the likely cause.

This isnt a perceived problem I have it too and it is very very annoying.

Safari will literally freeze to the point of becoming completely unresponsive and showing the beachball of death on pages with large animated gifs that display with no problems in firefox. This is a big problem on a lot of forums. I've also found several other people reporting the same problem while googling for a solution.

To see it in action go here:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=355091

once you scroll down to the section with the animated gifs it will soon become completely unresponsive (beware that this will freeze your safari for a while and it might be a while before it becomes responsive again and lets you close the offending window).

overall performance with animated gifs also seems to be much worse than other browsers, even when it doesnt freeze completely.

i tried a webkit nightly recently and this still wasnt fixed

Same experience for me from that site.

Froze Safari so I had to force quit.

Played OK in Firefox.

Conclusion: the website is simply not programmed for safari.

I can't even describe how I hate this.
I read a LJ community where everyone loves to use animated gifs in their comments. So when I read a post stuffed with a lot of animated gifs (2-5 MB each), Safari freazes hundereds of times. I wouldn't complain, but Firefox renders everything smoothly, no matter what.
The problem has been around for a while, I've sent several bug reports to Apple, but nobody seems to care.
Other than that Safari seems like a perfect browser, but the gif problem really bugs me.

Yes, unfortunately even after updating from the Beta release to the official Safari 4.0 releaset this annoying behavior with animated gifs continues unabated.

I agree with others who recommend that from this point on everyone who is also annoyed by the way Safari handles animated gifs report this directly to Apple using the *Report Bugs to Apple...* command in the Safari menu. Even though the software engineers who work on Safari may not have enough time to check in on these forums, they'll always see reports that come in via the *Report Bugs* channel.

Cheers!

This also happens with me.
When open some sites CPU goes to almost 100% usage and fans get working ful speed.
This does not happen with firefox.
I have already sent a report bug to Apple.

Ugh, I can't believe this. I suffer this problem too with the release Safari 4. I thought I could finally use Safari. Guess not. It's embarrassing really.

It's not really a Safari issue. See this bug:

https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22280

It's still something Apple need to fix, but the Safari team are hampered by other parts of OS X chewing up the CPU.