Animated .gif won't loop a specified amount of times

I created an animated .gif in photoshop and set it to loop twice. It works fine in every other browser except firefox. Here is a test example:
http://elliottkirby.com/test/
The box is set to animate across twice. Any thoughts? I tested setting it to loop "forever" and it works in FF...however the ad I'm creating has a loop time limit. I checked my config settings and image animation is set to normal. Thanks!

From what I understand of your problem;
- You have made your own animated gifs
- With the software to make these gifs you have set them to loop their animations 3 times
- They loop continuously
I don't see how java can be expected to interpret the animated gif software instructions to loop only 3 times and would assume that there are various proprietry ways of setting this (an assumption based on applets /javascript etc, that rely on the client-side browser interpreter). So, if you loop your animated gif or have any form of animated gif that you import into your program with getDocumentBase /getCodeBase as a (pre-animated) gif, then this is exactly what I would assume would happen.
The answer is to seperate your images with eg;-
smiley1[0];
smiley1[1];
smiley1[2];
run a seperate thread, cycle through them as you wish and stop.
I'm fairly sure that there is nothing in either the swing libraries or the jmf libraries that can resolve this any other way, so your choices are write extra code and have a pool of threads to control this, or leave it as is.

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