![]() ![]() I say bad dependency handling because forcing a user to install Web browsers, much less a specific one, to have a desktop environment, is a layering violation. On Debian’s part, this is just not the best dependency management on most desktop environments, with KDE seemingly the only one where removing Firefox doesn’t mean accepting an even worse browser or damaging the system. KDE’s, however, do not, so you may remove Firefox without worrying that it will demand that you install Chromium or risk damaging other parts of the OS. I was somewhat angry that the dependency sprawl of GNOME’s desktop meta-packages on Debian force the user to have either Firefox or Chromium. Last time I tried using Debian (11) and removing Firefox, I had GNOME. I’ve done a reverse dependency lookup, and it seems that the only desktop meta-package in Debian 12 that doesn’t “depend” on Firefox -or- Chromium is KDE. Jamie Zawinski called WebP “another turd in the punchbowl” 12 years ago. The way Google writes bad code, if it doesn’t end up breaking the Web for me it’ll just be more Web browser junk I turn off now. In Firefox/LibreWolf you can also turn off AVIF (which SeaMonkey doesn’t support yet) with to false. With WebP and AVIF turned off in LibreWolf, Reddit has gone back to sending me real JPEG files! I decided to turn it off in LibreWolf (Firefox fork) too and see if it breaks anything I use terribly. After turning WebP off, it offered to “download” the file somewhere instead of opening the image with its native WebP support. To test it, I took a WebP file and dropped it on SeaMonkey before and after. It’s a bad vulnerability and I spent a few days sort of ignoring SeaMonkey except to deal with my E-Mail, since that doesn’t open remote content by default anyway, then I found this. SeaMonkey is still not patched for the recent WebP security disaster.įortunately, until it is patched, I can just turn it off in about:config with to false. ![]() ![]() Turning WebP Off in SeaMonkey and LibreWolf. ![]()
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