Thread:Project:Support desk/Hover state on GIF animations/reply (4)

Oh, sadly, I've now checked and Firefox no longer stops gif animations anymore when pressing the ESC key

Cesdeva is asking for a problem in that Wikipedia article, so a solution may involve changes in MediaWiki core. Providing a static version of an animated gif requires manual intervention to upload it to commons and link it somewhere in the article so the CSS knows both images, which isn't feasible. That, or render a static version of the gif on the fly by the server (just like we resize images).