APNG

Animated PNG support for WebKit/Blink browsers

What is APNG?

APNG is a Chrome extension that enables animated PNG support in Google Chrome browser. It animates IMG elements and background images/list style images from CSS styles. It can be disabled or enabled for specific domains.

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This extension was removed from Chrome Web Store on 2022-06-10

By: David Mzareulyan

Users: 20,000+

Rating: 4.02 (320)

Version: 3.1.0 (Last updated: 2019-03-08)

Creation date: 2019-03-08

Risk impact: High risk impact

Risk likelihood: High risk likelihood

Manifest version: 2

Permissions:

<all_urls>
tabs
webRequest
alarms

Size: 409.60K

Email: da*****@hiero.ru

URLs: Website

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Extension summary

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Support for animated PNG images in Google Chrome browser.

🎉 Chrome 59 now have native support of APNG, so you do not need this extension anymore. Goodbye, it was an interesting 6 years! 🎉

About APNG format: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APNG

This extension animates IMG elements. Also it animates background images/list style images from css styles (div style="…"), but CSS images support may be incomplete.

You can prevent this extension from work on specific domains (Black List mode, default) or allowed it to work ONLY on specific domains (White List mode).

Source code is available on GitHub: https://github.com/davidmz/apng-chrome

WARNING! CAPTCHA may not work on some sites because of this expansion (it is not always possible to correctly detect captcha images). If captcha does not work on some site, just (temporarily) disable the extension on the it.

User reviews

Thanks for all the fun years with this extension! I never even noticed when chrome implemented support for it natively. Loved it while it lasted. Seriously, thanks for all the good times. :)