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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