Stop Animations

Stop Animations

Stops distracting animations.

What is Stop Animations?
'Stop Animations' is a highly useful Chrome extension that empowers users to pause potentially distracting animations on web pages. From GIFs to Flash and JavaScript-based animations, just a simple tap on the Escape key [esc] can stop them all, then press again to restore. The extension utilizes a unique mechanism where it layers a screenshot over a webpage to prevent animations. As it is unable to capture a full screenshot due to limitations (see crbug report 45209), the extension refreshes the overlay when you scroll or resize the window. Shortcut keys can be customized via chrome://extensions/shortcuts. Visit the GitHub page for ongoing development updates and to report any bugs.
Stats
Users: 8,000+
Rating: 3.18 (98)
Version: 2.00 (Last updated: 2023-01-03)
Creation date: 2018-10-25
Risk impact: Moderate risk impact
Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 3
Host permissions:
  • <all_urls>
Size: 391.17K
URLs: Website
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Summary

Great at stopping animations from distracting you while reading.

This stops everything from GIF, Flash, and even JavaScript.

Just press the escape key [esc]... and press again to restore.

To change the shortcut, go to chrome://extensions/shortcuts

Works by taking a screen shot and layering it over the page... unfortunately it can't do a full screen shot (see crbug report 45209), so it re-updates when you scroll or resize the window.

To raise bug reports, or see the source code, please go to:

https://github.com/craigfrancis/stop-animations

User reviews
User reviews summary
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Pros
  • Stops animations instantly with the press of the Esc key
  • Helpful in reducing motion-related issues for some users
  • Useful for pausing and resuming animated GIFs
Cons
  • Limited to using only the Esc key to stop and resume animations
  • Animations restart when scrolling the page
  • No option to customize key bindings
Most mentioned
  • Stops animations instantly with the press of the Esc key
  • Does not work as expected when scrolling the page
  • Limited to using only the Esc key to stop and resume animations
Recent reviews
does not work
by Piotr Lenartowicz Piotr Lenartowicz, 2023-12-29

It does exactly what it says it does. Easy-peasy. BUT the thing that cuts the usefulness half is the fact that as soon as you scroll, it stops its function and everything on the page moves again. I'm not a programmer. So, I'm ignorant to just how difficult it actually might be to fix that. But OMG, I really wish I could scroll through a frozen page.

Works great! Took me a while to figure out that I was restarting the animations by pressing Esc too often - thought you had to press it again after each time you scrolled. What a relief!! Seriously, WHO wants animations and WHO thinks they're a good idea??
by Elizabeth Powles Elizabeth Powles, 2023-04-08
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Safety
Risk impact

Stop Animations may not be safe to use and it requires some risky permissions. Exercise caution when installing this extension. Review carefully before installing.

Risk likelihood

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