Disable animated gifs in 64 bit Safari?

Hello. Since pith helmet announced that it'll take them a while to write a version compatible with 64 bit Safari, animated gifs have become an issue again, unless one goes back to 32 bit mode. SafariStand and ClickToFlash are of no help here. Does anyone know how to have animated gifs stand? Thanks.

Hi
the preference keys mentioned in webkit builds & within the safari app seem not to work, but this extension
https://github.com/matsadler/deanimator appears useful and is obviously easy to remove if it causes any problems. Works well here, in brief testing - but see the limitations

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