A significant vulnerability in the WebP Codec has been unearthed, prompting major browser vendors, including Google and Mozilla (update: Mozilla has now

This affects all browsers and not just Chrome, as the media falsely reported it. Mozilla just rolled out a fix, and Brave is looking into it. This bug is likely related to the “zero-click” iOS 0day that was reported by Citizenlab last week.

  • TylerDurdenJunior@lemmy.mlEnglish
    847·
    10 months ago

    Well, brave IS just chrome for crypto bros, so I would guess them “looking into it” is just them waiting for Google to update chrome

    • klyde@lemmy.worldEnglish
      615·
      10 months ago

      Or it could be all the other features that are included that Chrome doesn’t have

  • The Snark Urge@lemmy.worldEnglish
    467·
    10 months ago

    I have always disliked webp for its inconvenience when I try to save and share images. Nice to know people who actually know shit about it might have concerns also, I guess.

    • Troy Dowling@lemmy.worldEnglish
      132·
      10 months ago

      The only reason I know what webp is, is because its “that dumb format” that doesn’t play like a GIF in Signal.

      • lud@lemm.eeEnglish
        101·
        10 months ago

        Well at least it’s not a gif, because gifs really suck at animations.

        The quality is really bad because of its limited color and the file sizes are enormous because animations are just a series of images after each other without any compression or optimisation between them.

        • anlumo@lemmy.worldEnglish
          6·
          10 months ago

          There is optimization. Every frame in the gif can define a rectangle it’s drawn in on top of the previous image. This works fine for reduced color animations (like cartoons), but of course breaks completely for videos.

          • lud@lemm.eeEnglish
            1·
            10 months ago

            Well, that’s something at least. I wonder how common its usage is.

        • WhoRoger@lemmy.worldEnglish
          32·
          10 months ago

          Pretty much, people stick to an ancient format from the stone age and then bitch to people who want to change it.

          Get ready to be called names if you say the truth.

    • R0cket_M00se@lemmy.worldEnglish
      51·
      10 months ago

      Fucking hate that shit, I have to screenshot it when sending to the group chat cause it won’t upload webp.

    • zeus ⁧ ⁧ ∽↯∼@lemm.eeEnglish
      41·
      10 months ago

      now whilst i know why people like webp, maybe we could stop using formats owned by google…

      until jpegxl becomes viable (which it mainly isn’t because it compete[s/d] with webp), lets stick to nice formats not owned by tech giants, like apng?