Safari and animated .gifs

It's a problem with some core OS X libraries that Safari makes use of. Until those are fixed, there's not much that can be done.

http://bugs.webkit.org has details of these gif issues.

What the frack?! First time I had to FQ Safari ever.

That webpage oughta be set up as an acid test - or the new incarnation of the Browser Crasher page.

Yeah, me too here.
I Had to force-quit Safari 4.0 for the first time also, with the spinning pizza ball.
It loaded at first and hic-upped a little first then I just got the spinner.

That page is dangerous, some bad coding there, for sure.
I have been to many other pages, with flash and many with animated gif's and have had no problems what so ever.

And, Otherwise, the new Safari and that Java Release 9 has been behaving fine for me.

Others BEWARE !!!

TTab

Thank goodness someone else is having problems. I thought I was alone. I've been cursing my iMac for months every time I visit a forum that I post on frequently. I always hold out hope that people with annoying animated gif avatars don't post in the threads I want to read/reply to... haha.

This is a bit ridiculous though. The "fastest browser" hangs when it comes across 10 year old animation technology. Awesome.

I've been having this problem with various incarnations of Safari and OSX for as long as I can remember and it still hasn't been fixed. I wonder if SL will fix this at all? Personally, I'm not going to hold my breath.

Can't begin to describe how frustrating it is to be on a quad core machine with 4GB ram hooked up to a 24MB ADSL2 connection and feel like I'm browsing the web in 1999 because of a couple of simple animated gifs on a page :/

Why not just install SafariStand and use it to kill the .gif animation? That's better than having to do a Force Quit.

I just tried loading up the link in the OP on my CD 2.16ghz MBP running Snow Leopard, and happy to report no beachballs! It's a little jerky when scrolling, but certainly nothing that would ruin the experience. It looks like maybe something has been fixed in 10.6?

If your using photoshop, save by going to file>save for web> then save as a gif that way. Dont just file>save as. Hope this was helpful.

for example see:
Link: [www.gourmetitalian.com]

I encountered this same problem, I solved it by saving a different way in photoshop. Instead of using save as in the file menu, i "saved for web" that solved the problem for me. Hope this was helpful!

example:
www.gourmetitalian.com