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GIF Blocker

by rynu.smith

v0.2.1 Updated Dec 29, 2022 51.42KiB
CWS
4K
Users
★ 3.63
43 reviews
#11746
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#160 of 2.8K
⚠️Not updated in over 2 years

Description

This extension blocks animated images (*.GIF and *.WebP formats by default) to save bandwidth usage and improve page loading performance. The extension can get enabled or disabled from the action button. Once the extension is enabled, no animated resource is fetched from the internet. Instead, the remote image is replaced by a local alternative. When blocking mode is enabled, the user can still selectively load blocked images from the right-click context menu over the image context. How does it work: This extension redirects all the animated image requests to the local SVG image. This way, there is no server request at all (not even the HEAD request). Features: You can unblock an image from right-click context menu. The unblocking stays for this browser session. Or until the extension is disabled by pressing the toolbar button. Reduce bandwidth usage significantly by preventing any animated image loading. Animated images use a large amount of bandwidth compared to normal images. Optionally disable the extension for WebP or GIF image format. Optionally block video elements from auto-playing Optionally block CSS animation
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Reviews (12 cached)

★☆☆☆☆2026-02-25
jD-life-vision org

does NOT work for giphy

★☆☆☆☆2025-12-28
L

doesn't work at all, tried on reddit

★☆☆☆☆2024-07-03
M C

Blocks gifs but also blocks legit, non-animated webp images. I would give it 5 stars if it just stopped gifs, like the name says. it's not called Gif and WebP Backgrounds Blocker, but it should be, bc that's what it does.

★☆☆☆☆2021-01-28
Jaime

Does not work

★☆☆☆☆2020-03-30
Sasan Nasoohi

Does not work

★☆☆☆☆2020-03-28
Jill W

I'm bombarded with these flipping gif images on Facebook. This doesn't stop them. I hoped it would work...but it doesn't. :(

★☆☆☆☆2019-09-27
J J

Everyone is right, it's useless!

★☆☆☆☆2019-06-20
Paul

Doesn't work, I still see animated gifs all over but it does slow down every page load and interfere with other non-gif images.

★☆☆☆☆2019-06-11
Stuw R

Didn't work as far as I could see

★☆☆☆☆2018-12-08
Caroline Monroe

totally useless, does not block gifs or prevent animated gifs from running automatically. Waste of time

★★☆☆☆2017-08-21
Elizabeth Camargo

Did not work

★★★☆☆2018-08-07
MhMd 3eZZ

thank you it works but we need whitelist blacklist

Permissions (5)

Permissions

activeTab Can access the current tab when you click the extension contextMenus Can add items to the right-click menu declarativeNetRequest Can block or redirect network requests scripting Can inject scripts into web pages storage Can store data locally in your browser

Details

Version 0.2.1
Updated Dec 29, 2022
Size 51.42KiB
First Seen Mar 29, 2026