How come the wheel...

At the top of the page doesn't turn anymore?

Dull thread but I only just noticed.

because you kill puppies

(sorry i didnt reply to you txt dude, i still love ya)

real reason is it eats up power, the turning wheel i mean

i didn't notice till now, but i feel like something has died.

Coz it wastes resources that are better spent opening more browser windows of porn.

Surely wastes no more resources than the bat-shit crazy spinning avatars?

yeah... chris!

Surely wastes no more resources than the bat-shit crazy spinning avatars?

Correct ! The animated wheel header is a mere 11 KB - whilst Chris's avatar is 15 KB and my own avatar is just under 20 KB.

Bring back the wheel !!!

It was causing problems with someone's browser - specifically, it was chewing loads of resources.
Don't know why, don't care. This forum should be made more boring to facilitate an increased riding amount within the core readership.. or something moo.

ill give up my avatar for the wheel.

I'll pay VB to turn off all animations. :P

I'll pay VB to turn off all animations. :P

Static avatars are fine, but the animated ones make it obvious I'm not working waste cpu.

Just found out that you can stop animated gifs in Firefox by hitting Esc.

Apparently the 'stop' button does the same thing in IE, but I can't check that.

Woohoo, take that boss!

also..

"Firefox users have some additional options via an about:config tweak:

• In a new tab type **about:config **in the address bar and press enter
  
• In the filter field type animation
  
• In the results listed double-click on image.animation_mode
  

• In the pop-up box type in one of the following:

• none — will prevent image animation

• once — will let the image animate once

• normal (default) — will allow it to play over and over"

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