Can you see this nifty little garbage bin icon next to image.webp.enabled? This indicates that this preference isn't mandatory and can be deleted — sometimes this means that the it was added by the user manually, but not in this case — I know for sure that it was always there since it is how I *ALWAYS* kept WebP support disabled. Most of the time it means that this parameter was removed and no longer affects anything.
And you know what? It is the case — it has indeed been removed, here:
https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/188f0cf468d3c1734eed977b29beef19faf91fb9Yes, they have made what was optional before MANDATORY — for no reason. It's no longer up to you to disable it.
But the fun part is — look at the date this was submitted: it's the fifteenth of September! TWO DAYS after high-severity vulnerability in libwebp was registered. No shit, here it is:
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-4863Yes, it's exactly what it is — they have made it impossible for you to mitigate the quite possible vulnerabilities and put your fate in the hands of Google, making you dependent on them to fix their buggy shit. For no apparent reason!
My God, Mozilla, what the FUCK are you doing?!
#Mozilla #Firefox #GoogleShit #WebP