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.

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By: https://www.craigfrancis.co.uk

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Users: 8,000+

Rating: 3.16 (102)

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

Email: cr*****@gmail.com

URLs: Website

Ranking

# 10742 ▲ 485

Other rankings

#490 in Accessibility ▼ 1 #3 in animation keyword 14 #3 in stop keyword 12 ▲ 2 #91 in gif keyword 26 ▲ 1

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Not available on Edge

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Extension summary

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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

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