bigjohnny's advice on animations and blocking -

Blocking Viruses from Animation Gifs (Repeat)

Post by BigJohnny Today at 10:26 am
If you are like me
and do not want to be bogged down with all the animations, here is what
you can do. This works with Mozilla Firefox.

Right click over
the animation you don't want to see, then select "Block images from
...." In doing this you will never again see an image from that source.
I did that and now I have pages with no animations. This will help
those of you getting viruses or experiencing slow performance. Please
pass this along to anyone who feels the animations are over the top, or
causing problems for them. This works for any gifs (animations) you
see, including those in signatures.