Stops distracting animations.

Latest Version

Version
2.00
Update
January 2, 2023
Size
382KiB
Developer
www.craigfrancis.co.uk
Category
Users
8,000+
Rating
3.15686 ★
Manifest Version
3
Web Store Status
Languages Support
English
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Stop Animations Extension

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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Source Manifest.json

{"update_url": "https://clients2.google.com/service/update2/crx","name": "Stop Animations","short_name": "Stop Anim","version": "2.00","manifest_version": 3,"description": "Stops distracting animations.","icons": {"16": "icon16.png","48": "icon48.png","128": "icon128.png"},"host_permissions": [ "" ],"background": {"service_worker": "background.js"},"content_scripts": [ {"js": [ "screenshot.js" ],"matches": [ "http://*/*", "https://*/*" ] }],"content_security_policy": {"extension_pages": "default-src 'none'; base-uri 'none'; form-action 'none'; style-src 'self'; script-src 'self'; frame-ancestors 'none'; block-all-mixed-content; trusted-types 'none'; require-trusted-types-for 'script';"},"commands": {"stop-animations": {"description": "Stop Animations"}}}
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User reviews

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Chadwick Truchon (ChadwicKed) (ID: 0000008bb8e21eb5) Voted 3 ★ - Updated 04/18/2023 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.

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Elizabeth Powles (ID: 00000042ff3f73bb) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 04/08/2023 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??

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Silvestre Cajigan (ID: 00000075211371c4) Voted 2 ★ - Updated 02/23/2023 It didn't work at all. I'm playing a web game.. and still the animations are playing... https://www.r2games.com

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David Gilbertson (ID: 00000051f67c2e64) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 11/11/2022 Works. At first I was annoyed that the animations continued as I scrolled, but actually that's a useful hint that a particular image is animated, and that I might like to un-pause to see what it's showing. Great work.

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thwjrk (ID: 0000000fb59f131a) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 08/09/2022 Works quite well. Of all the extensions I've tried this is the best one by far. Esc stops the animations. Yes, when you are scrolling, the animations move but as soon as you stop scrolling the animations freeze. I don't mind the animations moving when I am scrolling because after all the whole screen is moving because I am scrolling. I especially like that the single click of esc is all it takes and the animations stop instantly. No waiting for a screen reload.