Shadowing 5 Posted September 11, 2012 Report Share Posted September 11, 2012 I notice that when firefox cache's a gif animation pic it also caches the state of the animation. anyone know of a way with out clearing the cache to make firefox replay a animation pic?I need a way where the browser doesnt redownload the picture Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ingolme 1,020 Posted September 11, 2012 Report Share Posted September 11, 2012 That's odd. I haven't seen Firefox do that. Animated GIFs can either be made to loop endlessly or to stop after the first loop, but that depends on who made the GIF and not on the browser. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
dsonesuk 913 Posted September 11, 2012 Report Share Posted September 11, 2012 They can be set to stop at a specific number of loops, not just the first. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Shadowing 5 Posted September 12, 2012 Author Report Share Posted September 12, 2012 (edited) Thanks for the replies guys I have the animation set up to play just once 1 what happends is once the animation plays. if i refresh the browser or reuse the picture the animation doesnt play from the start anymore. It doesnt play at all just shows the last frame. Works fine in IE. i google it its a common issue with FF and chrome to I believe. only way i found around the problem is adding a token to the src bleh.gif?number which prevents caching from working Edited September 12, 2012 by Shadowing Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Shadowing 5 Posted September 17, 2012 Author Report Share Posted September 17, 2012 I put together a example to show what fire fox does load the link below and then refresh the page it wont play the animation a 2nd time http://i1123.photobucket.com/albums/l545/Shadowing1983/move2.gif Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ingolme 1,020 Posted September 17, 2012 Report Share Posted September 17, 2012 You might need to look into other forms of animation, it doesn't look like there's a solution for this. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Shadowing 5 Posted September 18, 2012 Author Report Share Posted September 18, 2012 Thanks Ingolme. I needed to hear it from a pro to make sure yah i decided to just use java script. Which is actually a better solution in this case. allows me to do more then one type of animation with the same pics this way and a way smaller file size Quote Link to post Share on other sites
marry 0 Posted October 23, 2012 Report Share Posted October 23, 2012 I have found yet the best way tp clearing all the temporary files is download Ccleaner of your computer. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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