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Re:Firefox 93 by theandrewbailey on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @10:15AM (#28759784)
If you mean the container format, AVIF uses it natively.

If you mean the image format, probably never. It's based on the HEVC/H.265 licensing minefield. For that reason, I don't expect it to ever be supported on Chromium or Firefox based browsers.

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Re:Firefox 93 by teekert on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @10:32AM (#28760017)
Hmm, I have no issues viewing the files (iPhone pictures) on my Ubuntu desktop, are they that much braver?
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Re:Firefox 93 by Gigachad on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @05:17PM (#28765733)
Yes. You probably have the extra codecs package added which is arguably illegal to distribute in the US. Other distros like Fedora won’t touch it.
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