GIFViewer is a handy utility and it is FREE. It enables you to view the most popular image standard on the WEB: GIF. And GIFViewer even supports animated GIFs. GIFViewer is a Windows 9x/NT program.
If you do a lot of "surfing", you need GIFViewer. View pictures off line by browsing the cache of your browser software.
If your browser does not support animated GIFs, you need GIFViewer. You will see what you were denied all along.