GNU bug report logs - #23431
Displaying animated GIFs can make Emacs unresponsive

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From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: 23431 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Juliusz Chroboczek <jch <at> pps.univ-paris-diderot.fr>
Subject: bug#23431: 25.0.93; EWW hangs
Date: Tue, 03 May 2016 15:16:38 -0400

Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:

> Yeah, it's an extreme GIF, but Emacs shouldn't become (almost) unusable
> in the presence of such images...  I mean, you have to kill the eww
> buffer to get anything done.
>
> You can get pretty much the same effect by visiting a page that contains
> a number of smaller animated images.  

Right, but it's not like this is new in 25 or anything, it's always been
like that.

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