Preview always crashing

November 5, 2011 1:01 AM

I use Preview to view the many lolcats I download off the Internet, but the application is crashing constantly since I "upgraded" to Mac Lion. Further, Preview only seems to display animated gifs as still frames. Recommended solutions?
posted by dgaicun to Computers & Internet (6 answers total)

View animated gifs (and, indeed, other images) in a browser.
posted by pompomtom at 1:06 AM on November 5, 2011

I'm a fan of the app Just Looking.
posted by sharkfu at 1:45 AM on November 5, 2011

Yup, Just Looking or Xee.

(Curious: did you do an in-place upgrade to Lion, or a clean install?)
posted by Pinback at 2:13 AM on November 5, 2011

Preview crashes on my as well since my in-place upgrade to Lion. I don't use it to view animated GIFS, but PDFs, various images, etc.

Any ideas?
posted by reddot at 6:24 AM on November 5, 2011

Have you trashed your Preview preferences?
~User/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Preview.*
There should be about four different files.

I don't believe Preview has ever displayed animated gifs in motion.
posted by Thorzdad at 8:11 AM on November 5, 2011

How about just using Quick Look? It's pretty great in Lion, and it has an awesome, seldom-used thumbnail viewer. I just checked, and animated gifs are working for re (but not when you view them as thumbnails.)

This page goes over some of the less-known features.

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/several-ways-to-look-beyond-quick-look-mac/
posted by kpmcguire at 9:47 AM on November 5, 2011