Disable animated avatars

[shmokes]

Is it possible to disable animated avatars without disabling all avatars?  Every now and then I see one that is more or less acceptable, but about 95% of the time it's one like ark_ader's current with the scary clown thing that is quite possibly the dorkiest thing I have ever seen and having to see it looped just sort of makes me die a little inside.  Anyway, I don't want to disable avatars altogether, but I wouldn't mind hiding the animated gifs.  Is this possible?

[Hoopz]

Just hit the ESC key if it isn't possible to disable them. Short term solution.

[shmokes]

That's a neat trick.  Thanks.

[saint]

No way that I know of per individual user, esc is what I usually do.

[Blanka]

With adblock you can right-click and disable a specific avatar
With Firefox you can change a setting in about:config that disables looping or playing at all of animated GIFs.

  1.  In the Location Bar type about:config and hit Enter
   2. Type "anim" in the Filter field (to quickly find the needed preference)
   3. Double-click the image.animation_mode line and edit it to one of the following:

        none — will prevent image animation
        once — will let the image animate once
        normal (default) — will allow it to play over and over

[shmokes]

Now we're talking!  I'm already running adblock.

[ark_ader]

Is it possible to disable animated avatars without disabling all avatars?  Every now and then I see one that is more or less acceptable, but about 95% of the time it's one like ark_ader's current with the scary clown thing that is quite possibly the dorkiest thing I have ever seen and having to see it looped just sort of makes me die a little inside.  Anyway, I don't want to disable avatars altogether, but I wouldn't mind hiding the animated gifs.  Is this possible?

I should change my current one and replace it with a scarier one,but Saint would just make me delete it....