Animated gifs play much too slowly in Safari

As far as I can tell, this is constant across all WebKit browsers. Basically take any animated gif (), and open it side by side in Safari and some other browser like Firefox or Opera, and it will always play much more smoothly in the other browser.
I can't seem to find anything about this on google right now, and it's driving me nuts. Anyone know anything?
Also how do I make this forum not show my real name...
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I am using Captivate 5.5 on a Windows machine. I inserted an animated gif into my Captivate, using insert > animation... Then, I inserted a button. When I pressed F4 to preview the animation, it played only once. I put a check mark on the loop on the timing of the properties of the animation. Still, it played only once. It stopped when the play head stoped moving. I cannot make the animated gif play continuously. Does anybody know how to make the animated gif play continuously?
thaks.

You can try this:
Stick this in the header area of your code
<script type="text/javascript"> function showBuyLink() {
document.getElementById("buylink").style.visibility = "visible";
} // adjust this as needed, 1 sec = 1000
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Stick this around your buy link code.
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Yopu can rename "buylink", but you have to make sure you rename all instances or it will kill the script.
If you're not comfortable incorporating that, unfortunately, the other option would be to create a Flash animation and put a button in the last frame.
That would be just as difficult (if not worse) as writing (or tweaking) a javascript to delay the hotspot, and even worse because it would be invisible to phone users. Additionally, people who disable javascript would never see the link if you did add the script.
There isn't any way to do this with HTML or CSS, and you now know the flaws with the methods that will work.

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I'm trying to create an animated gif and every time I save for web, select gif, and click on animate I receive an error stating that my file size is too big and I should remove layers. My animated gif is composed of 8 layers of jpegs, each originally about 1 MB. I've tried to reduce the image size by adjusting the ppi and also reducing the amount of layers to just 2 and I still get the same error.
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Something is very wrong here. The point behind using GIFs is that they are small and OK to put on a Web site.
First thing: forget all about PPI - this has absolutely no relevance to Web/screen images; it is only used for printing. You need to think about the pixel size.
So, how big in pixels are your starting images?
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