Making firefox replay a Gif animation

[Shadowing]

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

[Ingolme]

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.

[dsonesuk]

They can be set to stop at a specific number of loops, not just the first.

[Shadowing]

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

[Shadowing]

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

[Ingolme]

You might need to look into other forms of animation, it doesn't look like there's a solution for this.

[Shadowing]

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

[marry]

I have found yet the best way tp clearing all the temporary files is download Ccleaner of your computer.