SuperGIF

This Chrome extension bundles SuperGIF class from libgif-js and brings basic play controls for animated gifs into your browser.

SuperGIF Chrome Extension: Play, pause, and seek animated GIFs

SuperGIF is a Chrome extension that enhances the user experience of watching animated GIFs by adding play controls like pause, resume, and seek. It replaces GIF images with a canvas that plays the animation frame by frame, providing better control and focus on the details.
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Extension stats

Manifest V3
Users: 89
-5
Rating: 5.00
(2)
Version: 0.0.2 (Last updated: 2021-07-25)
Creation date: 2021-07-25
Permissions:
  • activeTab
  • contextMenus
  • scripting
Size: 301.06K
Full description: See detailed description

Other platforms

Not available on Android
Not available on Firefox
Not available on Edge

User reviews

Very simple and works good. How to use: 1. Right click on the animated gif and select "SuperGif". 2. Wait until the gif is loaded (you can see the progress bar below the image). 3. Click on the image to STOP / PLAY 4. Click and drag the mouse to SEEK FORWARD / BACK
by Стас Л, 2022-11-17

Works really well. The one annoying thing is that every time we load a page, we have to manually click on each GIF image and wait a few seconds until it becomes playable. To make this perfect: 1. run the script automatically over every GIF that is loaded in a webpage. 2. cache the playable results (not by default, but give the option per webpage), so that we don't need to re-run the script every time we come across the same page. Ps: The reason I'm suggesting this is that there is this documentation website that has tons of GIFs and I need to revisit it constantly, and not only I have to pause the GIFs to see what's going on, but also the many GIFs playing all the time are very distracting when you're trying to read the web page, so it's nice to pause them.
by Juan, 2022-05-27
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Extension safety

Risk impact

SuperGIF does not require any sensitive permissions.

Risk impact analysis details
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