When opening an animated gif, lots of memory consumed followed by crash

Any large (read: anything more than a megabyte) animated GIF causes Firefox to consume all available memory, and then subsequently, crash.
I've tried the following:
- Disable all extensions
- Disable hardware acceleration
- Run in safemode
- New Firefox installation
- Set affinity of Firefox to only use one core
With no effect.
I am a long time Firefox user and enthusiast, but I am really considering making the transition to Chrome (which does not crash with long animated GIFs)
There is no option to submit a crash report about it, and there is also no crash reports on my local system AT ALL.
The following is a short video demonstrating the memory leak.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIS8baOSwJ0&feature=youtu.be

After some further reading, I set the preference image.mem.decodeondraw=false in about:config. Firefox struggled with the GIF, not always able to display anything useful in the window, but did not crash. Clicking the Home button to navigate the tab away allowed Firefox to unload memory. Not an improvement, really.
Doing a little more searching, I discovered that the file you linked was the demo for this yet-to-be-fixed bug: [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=523950 523950 – Long animated GIF makes Firefox consume all available memory].
It's generally not helpful to add comments to bugs (unless you can help fix them), but you can register on the Bugzilla site and "vote" for them to be fixed. See:
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