how to deal with GIF's on a mobile

antijoke · 22 Sep 2013 at 17:27

Right I'm sick and tired of browsing this forum on my phone and when a few gif files appear on a page it becomes unresponsive and unusable.

What do others do about this? Is there a way to stop them loading? It really has ****ed me off.

Thread in question was the football weekend thread. A few gifs and it's dead.

I'm on a Galaxy nexus with android 4.2. Piece of ****.

I await a flood of the ****ing things making this thread useless.

And yes bro, I'm mad.

dirtychinchilla · 22 Sep 2013 at 17:28

Should have got an iPhone.

antijoke · 22 Sep 2013 at 17:29

I plan on doing just that when I can upgrade.

Deleted member 77746 · 22 Sep 2013 at 17:32

Should have bought a mac.

LOAM · 22 Sep 2013 at 17:33

Chrome by any chance?

MissChief · 22 Sep 2013 at 17:34

I find that holding down on the picture and choosing 'view' works.

The gif thread makes my iPad have a coronary though.

antijoke · 22 Sep 2013 at 17:34

No standard android browser. All other browsers make this forum look stupid.

Efour · 22 Sep 2013 at 17:39

apple makes you more productive

andy_mk3 · 22 Sep 2013 at 17:41

GIFs are fine (even lots of them) on my S4 using Chrome.

bitslice · 22 Sep 2013 at 17:42

ban pointless gifs?
half of them are of the boring 'abandon thread' type anyway

Rozzy85 · 22 Sep 2013 at 17:57

Most mobile devices will struggle with loads of high res. GIFs with large amounts of frames. They're inefficient and costly to render. Some browsers deal with them better but it's marginal. You only option is to avoid said threads.

Pawnless Endgame · 22 Sep 2013 at 18:02

Don't some browsers have the option to animate GIFs only once?

Squark · 22 Sep 2013 at 18:09

Monserrat said:
Don't some browsers have the option to animate GIFs only once?

My mobile browser has the option not to show animated gifs

dirtychinchilla · 22 Sep 2013 at 18:14

Also, GIF is what?

antijoke · 22 Sep 2013 at 18:22

Lol typed in haste on my mobile.

Pawnless Endgame · 22 Sep 2013 at 18:24

dirtychinchilla said:
Should have got an iPhone.

dirtychinchilla said:
Also, GIF is what?

notsureifserious.GIF

Fenris · 22 Sep 2013 at 18:29

Pages with gifs working fine on my S3 in Chrome.

LOAM · 22 Sep 2013 at 18:32

Gifs are dire on chrome mobile for me, Firefox is fine though. Chrome just hangs.

Beans on toast Dave · 22 Sep 2013 at 18:35

quick someone put a GIF up so he cannot see any replys

areksnumbr1sxylady · 22 Sep 2013 at 18:39

Better?

I thought nexus was good at this cause its stronk.