I've not used XP for a long time
but was it not the same for that? I thought that gifs had to open in your browser. Mine always have.
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Sun 2 Mar 2008, 20:49,
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It did do animated gifs,
but not necessarily at the same speed as any internet browser.
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Sun 2 Mar 2008, 20:52,
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