GIF's wont load

[ardypilot]

After the recent discussion of .GIF files in the forums, I thought I would ask a question here in Tech Issues.

About 80% of GIF files that I come across are stationary and are not moving (Like Mikes Sig and Avatar), yet I can see Crazy_Craig's signiture animated fine. This only became apparent to me when I was down at the netcafe the other day, and happened to browse NZFF and see everything in full motion which I was not used to on my home computer.

I have searched the net and found heaps of people with the same issue, yet they fixed it by going into their ZoneAlarm settings (which I run as a firewall), and under Privacy- Ad Blocking- Custom, they have unticked 'animations' from being blocked. That box has been unticked on my ZA for ages yet I still don't see some GIF's.

Also, I tried going into the Mozilla config (I run Firefox version 1.5.0.9) by hitting about:config in the URL bar, then selecting images.animation_mode and changing it to 'normal' which it was already set as.

Another thing that I might note is that a good few images in Wikipedia articles fail to display for me- yet they are not animated ones and I have no idea what is going on there.

So is there anything else I can do to solve my problem? It is exactly the same with IE7 too.

Cheers

[ooOO00OOoo]

Do you something like JAVA and JAVAscript? if so try turning them on and off. Also make sure you have cookies enabled??

[HardCorePawn]

Do you leave your computer and/or firefox running all the time? or do you shut down?

If you leave it running, try restarting and also emptying the browser cache. I have read lots lately about people having issues with ZoneAlarm... I used to use it, but then it just became a P.I.T.A!