Windows and macOS Lack a Fast Way to Browse Many Animated GIFs at Once
Built-in file viewers on Windows and macOS show GIF thumbnails as static images and only play one file at a time, making it tedious to browse large GIF collections. This is a systemic gap in default OS media browsing rather than an app-specific bug.
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