Problem with safari.. only animating 1 gif of a kind?

iBlue

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I dont know why, but safari has this habit, of only animating 1 gif of a kind on the screen at a time. personally this is irritating because i have a BB where the catagory images are animated gifs, and when its animated, it means someone posted there. its animated to get you're attention. But with safari, only one of them animates, the rest are frozen.

how the hell do i fix this? can i fix this? its the 1 thing which driving me up the wall, since other then this, safari runs awesome.

anyone know what needs to be done to fix this?
 
What version of OS X are you running? I used to have this problem under 10.2.x, but since upgrading to 10.3, I haven't noticed it.
 
pth helmet doesnt fix this problem, safari isnt running 2 identical gifs at the same time that is the issue...

dlloyd, i am using 10.2.8, dont i need a g5 to use 10.3.x?
 
Of course not! :)
Panther actually runs faster overall than Jaguar does on most computers.
 
Yeah, I really like it :)

Since this was about Safari, I'm current tracking a bug which I've come to believe slows Safari down to crawl after a while. It seems to happen if you have APE (APlication Enhancer) installed. I'm not sure about it yet, but that's what the preliminary analysis shows :D
 
I have a copy of Panther installed on my old graphite iBook, 366 mhz with 384 of ram and it's speedier than on Jaguar, so you don't need a G5 at all.
Dlloyd, I've never had trouble with Safari and APE. I did have some troubles when I had autofill on for everything and was doing some online jobhunting recently, but I found a way to clean that up and get Safari speedy and panic-free, once again.
 
It seems to happen if I have had quite a few tabs open, and have had the app open for a long time. I haven't confirmed it yet (I haven't had it going long enough since disabling APE,) but so far I haven't had more problems. What happens is everything slows down. It sometimes takes up to 10 seconds for a click to register. Moving the mouse over the bookmark bar or tab bar doesn't do the highlight fx for up to 10 seconds either. It's reeeaaally annoying.
 
No, why would I want to do that? Wouldn't it just make Safari reload the page every time? (slow)
 
If you're on a dial-up, you might notice a slight slowing if loading a page each time, but for 99% of Internet users, it would be so slight as to be unnoticed.
By deactivating the cache, not only do you get new pages every time (Safari loves to load from the cache whenever possible), but the cache also makes the app swollen and slows it down as it seems to cycle through the entire cache for your page.
In IE, I've always kept the system cache to 0 (tip from MacAddict long ago) and I use Safari Enhancer to deactivate the cache in Safari.
It speeds things up considerably.
 
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