Comments on: Tip: Use Preview for animated gifs

By: John Blackburn

John Blackburn — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 15:21:01 +0000

WIlly, the default in Snow Leopard appears to have been inverted to automatically expand the animated gif by default. I don’t see a way to automatically collapse it by default.

By: Willy

Willy — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 06:59:42 +0000

When I open an animated .gif in Preview, it always shows the collection of images in the sidebar. Do you know how to change this behavior so it defaults to only showing the first frame?

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 19:07:27 +0000

I open all gif’s in safari. I must say that for priding themselves on media technology, apple really disappoints me when I can’t view the gif’s animation in preview. However, viewing each frame is a nice tool to have sometimes.

By: Obi-Wandreas

Obi-Wandreas — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 21:00:04 +0000

It still annoys me that in Leopard they removed the “play” button from Preview. You used to be able to simply hit that button to watch animated .gifs play. Since upgrading I have changed all my gifs to open in Quicktime Player instead.