På mandag 17. august 2026 kl. 21:45, skrev Kirill A. Korinsky <[email protected]>:
> On Mon, 17 Aug 2026 20:33:03 +0200, > Caspar Schutijser <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Mon, Aug 17, 2026 at 02:51:28PM +0200, Landry Breuil 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 think it indeed makes sense to wait. For the next 1,5-2 weeks, I > > certainly won't have time to do any backports of patches or do testing > > of those. If you feel like it you can work on that but I think waiting > > is easier. > > > > https://blog.torproject.org/new-alpha-release-tor-browser-160a9/ says > > that upstream hopes to ship Tor Browser 16.0 in September, which would > > be based on the new 153 Firefox ESR. > > > > I can cook patches for Tor Browser, but waitng is fine. > > My main concern that better to test ffmpeg early, because it may broke many > things from blender and mvp to who know else like tdesktop on some cases. > > Also, I not sure how many people actually watch videos in Tor Browser which > needs ffmpeg. > > I had tested current firefox against ffmpeg-9.0 and it plays random videos > from youtube. > > So, blust radius should be quite limited. > > -- > wbr, Kirill > > Can confirm librewolf survives ffmpeg-9.0. Waiting looks good for now.
