Firefox 130.0 graphics are black squares on many sites

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I had to go back to 129.0.1 (and to the previous save .mozilla file) to get graphics again.

anyone else have this

www.abcnews.com is one site that has black graphics in 130.0

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Hi @larryr !

My system:

Yes, I can confirm this for the website stated, i.e. https://abcnews.go.com/ (redirected…). The sites I regularly use, I haven’t experienced this behaviour, so far though.

When I have https://abcnews.go.com/ open, there is e.g. this picture: https://i.abcnewsfe.com/a/38f31e58-4d43-478a-8826-40dde2ae3531/Harris-Trump-debate-1-gty-jm-240911_1726075794110_hpMain_16x9.jpg. It’s shown black in Firefox. But when I save it (using Firefox), it gets to Harris-Trump-debate-1-gty-jm-240911_1726075794110_hpMain_16x9.avif (note the extension!) which I am able to view with XnView MP properly.

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Curious about this topic, I tried to download the problem image via wget, as in:

wget https://i.abcnewsfe.com/a/38f31e58-4d43-478a-8826-40dde2ae3531/Harris-Trump-debate-1-gty-jm-240911_1726075794110_hpMain_16x9.jpg

and the downloaded image is indeed a .jpg file (with a “JFIF” header), while if I save the image via Firefox (129) the saved image is an .avif file (with a “ftypavif” header) that cannot be opened by common apps like GIMP or EyeOfGnome, but needs photo editing tools like Darktable.
Apparently there is some (hidden?) interaction between that specific site and FF that changed from FF129 to FF130?

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Maybe some websites send .avif images when FF>129 is being used but FF130 is not ready yet to properly display them?
You may also try to install gdk-pixbuf-loader-libavif and see if it helps?

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I just tried that: no change to me.

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Dear @OrsoBruno

Strange…

Addition and more actual:

As you already did, I also tried wget — and curl. Both give me a (working) JPG. Don’t know what’s Firefox doing on this.

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But FF 129.0.1 can open and display the .avif image via “Open file”, so it looks as a regression in FF 130?

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I haven’t tried MozFx 129.0.1 again — I am now with 130.0. And I don’t want to downgrade any more. (I don’t have experienced such sites so far… So, I am fine with.)

Well, looks as if.

One of us should leave a note at Mozilla Bugzilla…

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Avif support in Firefox is not complete yet. Tracker bug for countless blocking and depending bugs

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Hi @hui !

Thank you for mentioning that issue. Fine!

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Missing codec???

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I can confirm the issue described here with TW20240911 and MozillaFirefox-130.0-3.1.x86_64 from openSUSE’s Mozilla repo. Installing FF 130 via Flatpak works fine, so is it a packaging issue? By the way, FF 129.0.1 works fine.

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I have opened a bug report at 1230500 – Firefox 130 shows no graphics or black squares on some websites, so feel free to join the discussion there.

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The same problem here with Tumbleweed. For example look here: https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/

But there is another fault of Firefox 130, look here and scroll down: https://www.focus.de/

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According to https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1916038, there will be an upstream fix available in FF 130.0.x

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The issue is fixed for me with MozillaFirefox-130.0-5.1.x86_64 from openSUSE’s Mozilla repo (Tumbleweed), which contains the aforementioned upstream fix (it is currently building for Leap 15.5 and 15.6 as well). Thanks to Wolfgang Rosenauer!

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