Safari/Webkit slow animated gifs and cpu spike

[ASFx]

Whenever I view a site or forum that has animated GIFs posted, safari comes to a crawl and my CPU spikes until i can scroll them off the page. Sometimes it evens gives me a beachball for a few seconds, and im on an octo core mac pro.

i did a bit of research and found that this is a bug in webkit that has existed for several years. This bug also effects Google Chrome in the same way since it's based on webkit. Does anyone have more info on this? Shouldn't this have been fixed by now?

 

[Aronnax]

read for example:
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22280
or
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21589
or
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14105
or
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16028
or ...

 

[ASFx]

read for example:
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22280
or
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21589
or
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14105
or
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16028
or ...

I've seen those. Unfortunately people have been talking about this bug for a long time. Apple and webkit seem to be doing nothing about it. I was hoping someone might have some sort of temporary solution to stop safari from nearly crashing every time i come across an animated gif.