Have indicator to distinguish the gif and other normal pictuIres

[ooker777]

I think this will be useful. Maybe a play button, or this is a gif, or just gif. What do you think?

[simonlindholm]

The request has come up in the past and it would be certainly useful, but it turns out be hard to implement, especially when you don't want to affect page load performance. Closing as dup of #16, see the discussion there.

[LL25255252]

@ooker777 , this is not a perfect solution but you can try my userstyle:
https://userstyles.org/styles/112111/global-add-dashed-border-to-gif-images

[ooker777]

@LL25255252 is your userscript a fork of this addon? What is the relationship between two?

[LL25255252]

No it's not a fork. It's not a userscript, it's a userstyle for the Stylish addon based on @simonlindholm idea - see also #10 (comment)
The style indicates (by adding a dashed border) which images in the page are animated. Useful especially if the addon's "Pause Gif's by default" is enabled and you can't tell if the image is a regular image or a gif.
Try it. You can always easily uninstall it.

[Benguin]

As an alternative that's probably easier, I'd accept the option of having an icon on the toolbar that shows the number of paused gifs.

[simonlindholm]

That sounds just as hard to implement (except UI-wise, maybe). The reason for the difficulty is that the addon doesn't get notified about the fact that there exists animated gifs.

[Benguin]

Ah, dang. You can't run a script once the page is finished loading to perform a count? How do extensions like videodownloadhelper do things?

[simonlindholm]

I can, and will have to if I want to add this feature in some form, it just makes me sad to have to slow down page loading for every page ever, just to do that... There's additional complications, too, about images appearing dynamically (not that uncommon), and perhaps the APIs not working before images are displayed for the first time, but I haven't really looked into that.

(Pretty sure Video Downloadhelper does that, possibly with a whitelist. But I haven't looked, so I don't know details.)

[simonlindholm]

I managed to figure out how to do this. See #16, and the link in the last comment to an XPI. (Feedback appreciated. I'll make an AMO release soon, even if review queues may prolong that somewhat.)