Hey! Author of the extension here, the link to the tweet above is dead now because it said that the links weren’t up and i didn’t want to be confusing, I didn’t know ppl started to link it elsewhere, sorry about that!
Reputting the links here now that everything is live
You can get it for Firefox here => https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/gifsontumblr/
You can get it for Chrome here => https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ccjbcoflmpghkhenojnpepcdbimhiglf/
The source code of the extension is here https://github.com/eramdam/GifsOnTumblr
- Important disclaimer: the extension works now because Tumblr still hosts the original GIFs every time, presumably for browser compatibility purposes. The day they stop doing so, the extension will stop working unfortunately and there won’t be any way back (converting mp4/webm back to GIF is a very messy situation and will almost always result in glitches and such :/ )
- GIFs heavy pages might slow down your computer, that was always the case because GIFs is very resource hungry (hence why Tumblr/Imgur/Twitter convert them in mp4) but I want to put it out there as a warning just to make that clear.
- the extension only goes through all the links/images present on the dashboard/explore pages and replaces the `.gifv` in the URLs to `.gif`. That’s it.
- as such, there isn’t any visual indication that the extension worked (I might add one if it gets requested) so the only way to check is to do something like “Open image in a new tab” on a gif in your dashboard
it does not work on /tagged /likes /blog pages but I imagine it can and might be done in the future, but either way this is better than nothing.
I didn’t notice that! I’m a very light Tumblr-user, my only use of it is to grab GIFs from various sources (hence why the gifv change pissed me off), but I’ll try to look into this!
Feel free to reach me on Twitter @Eramdam if you got any suggestions, issues or anything really (you can try on Tumblr but frankly, the UI is very confusing to me nowadays and I might not see your message very quickly)
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