I have a weird issue where if I play an animation on one of my 3 monitors, YouTube videos on any other monitor crashes. I did fix this by disabling hardware acceleration in chrome://flags, but a new update in Chrome recently made the issue come back, and I haven't found a way to fix it yet. Animations occur on places like Facebook ("Someone is typing a comment...") or basically any website with a animation-duration
CSS property on something (spinners are probably the most used form of animations I guess).
I can verify this simply by placing this CSS on any page:
* {
animation-duration: 0s !important;
}
Boom instantly all my videos play perfectly. No issues what so ever. I could add this to an userscript (or make a tiny extension), and I don't think it would mess up too much, but I'm more interested in knowing if there's a Chrome flag that can disable animations completely? I don't know if animation-duration
works for any animation.
Allow me to answer my own question. Setting animation-duration
to 0s !important
seems to be working. However, I added animation-play-state: paused
for good measure as well.
I made an userscript, and found that it doesn't target the Shadow DOM, so I have to traverse through every element, check if it's a shadow root, and then add the CSS. Since elements can be added to a page dynamically, I decided to do this every second. So far I cannot see a performance difference, even on pages with a lot of elements.
Install TamperMonkey (Chrome) or GreaseMonkey (Firefox) to use this:
// ==UserScript==
// @name Disable all animations
// @version 1.0
// @author mortenmoulder
// @include *
// @grant GM_addStyle
// @grant GM_addElement
// ==/UserScript==
//remove animations globally
GM_addStyle("* { animation-duration: 0s !important; animation-play-state: paused; }");
var ignoreElements = [];
//remove animations inside shadow DOM elements
function findShadowRoots(elements) {
for (var i = 0; i < elements.length; i++) {
if(elements[i].shadowRoot) {
if(ignoreElements.includes(elements[i].shadowRoot) == false) {
GM_addElement(elements[i].shadowRoot, 'style', { textContent: '* { animation-duration: 0s !important; animation-play-state: paused;' });
ignoreElements.push(elements[i].shadowRoot);
}
findShadowRoots(elements[i].shadowRoot.querySelectorAll("*"));
}
}
}
//remove animations every 1 second
setInterval(() => {
var allNodes = document.querySelectorAll('*');
findShadowRoots(allNodes);
}, 1000);