Subject: Re: bug#23431: 25.0.93; EWW hangs

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 03 May 2016 19:57:57 +0300

> Date: Tue, 03 May 2016 18:26:19 +0200
> From: Juliusz Chroboczek <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [email-masked]
> 
> > The other thing is that the ImageMagick animation thing I implemented is
> > s-l-o-w.  (And eww is using that instead of the GIF animation, since GIF
> > doesn't allow rescaling.)
> 
> For 25, perhaps it might make sense to default to not animating images?

No, I don't want us to do that.  The problem is not so bad in an
optimized build, and Emacs is not really stuck, it still responds to
keyboard input.

In any case, let's first see what it takes to fix this.  Perhaps the
fix is so simple we can allow it in Emacs 25.1.