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by throwaway_pdp09 1720 days ago
Your damn animated gif has sucked up >4.7GB in my browser and crashed it. Not impressed.

Did animation actually add anything significant anyway.
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smoyer 1720 days ago
I'm not disputing that the image may not add anything to the article but if a 10MiB GIF image can crash your browser maybe you should look at other vendors. I'm on Firefox Developer Edition with approximately 100 tabs open and didn't notice that image as a resource hog.
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throwaway_pdp09 1720 days ago
It's animated (and there are 3 on that page totalling 35MB). Some systems unfold each frame into its own image and store that.

Please open firefox to that page, leave it open for a few minutes and observe the memory. I suspect FX will bloat too.

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