Re: ffmpeg-9.0.1 against firefox and friends

On Mon, 17 Aug 2026 14:51:28 +0200,
Landry Breuil <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Le Mon, Aug 17, 2026 at 01:52:45PM +0200, Kirill A. Korinsky a écrit :
> > Folks,
> > 
> > I'd like to go ffmpeg-9.0.1 in soon, and as far as I recall the firefox
> > needs some love.
> > 
> > The last time it requires some ABI compatibility patches to play *some*
> > videos, here the thread from last upgrade:
> > https://marc.info/?t=176217360500004&r=1&w=2
> > 
> > To avoid bad user expirence, I'd like to ask you, does your port ready?
> > Shall I wait or I can go in asap?
> 
> technically, this is taken care of by
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2057577 which has been
> merged for 155, and backported to 154 and esr153. i havent done any
> testing of ffmpeg9 yet.
> 
> firefox 154 is planned tomorrow, and i was planning to update
> www/firefox-esr from 140 to 153 tomorrow too.
> 
> my understanding is that librewolf 154 should follow shortly, so that
> only leaves tor-browser which still tracks esr140 branch, and where some
> manual backporting should be done.
> 
> imo, you should at least wait for the 154/153.1 updates to land..
> 

I'm fine to wait, but I prefer to put it early to start testing it early,
here the only reason.

Anyway, I'll wait feedback about librewolf and tor-browser.

-- 
wbr, Kirill