I love a good animated gif and most the time I just view them and move on. But now that I have joined Google Plus, animated gif have turned into an eye sore.  Okay, they’re only annoying when you are trying to read something and there is elephant that keeps bouncing up and down on a trampoline.  So I decided to do something about it.

Introducing my latest Google Chrome extension:  The Gif Stopper.  This will stop an animated gif in its tracks by just pressing the escape key.

Okay, I can’t take total credit for it.  The bread and butter of the extension what written by Johan Sundström and he posted it on userscripts.org.  I just turned it into a Chrome Extension.  The code for the extension including Johan’s code is posted on my github page.

Enjoy.