Perusing a thread with a lot of gifs, while not exactly pleasant, wasn't too much hassle. It's when I would visit my Google+ photo album where I store hundreds of gifs that I would experience absolutely soul-crushing slowdown. Nothing would load properly, couldn't scroll anywhere and sometimes, the whole page would go blank if I left the tab so I could do something else while waiting.
Now I can actually navigate the page and it still stutters a bit while loading (because it's rendering a preview of every single gif), but I can actually scroll and interact with things.
Please, stay this way!