Here is a handy tip for dealing with a site that has animated GIFs, pressing ‘ESC’ key will pause animated GIF’s on a page (broken with Firefox 20 and newer). This works in both Firefox and Internet Exploiter.  Note: in order to ‘resume’ the animation you will need to refresh/reload the page. You can test this out with the image below: 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…