[Tfug] Firefox and TIFFs

[Robert Hunter]

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On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 11:51:21PM +0000, Eric M. Gearhart wrote:
> I get the impression from the Wikipedia article that TIFF is "owned
> by" Adobe - I dunno if Firefox wants to dip their toe into that for
> fear of Adobe asking for a license to implement it, or something

> Although on second search I see the libtiff project - I wonder why
> Firefox doesn't implement that natively... hmm.
 
> Anyone tried tiff-plugin? http://tiff-plugin.sourceforge.net/ 

The wikipedia article also mentions some stuff about exploits in
libtiff.  That could be one reason why the mozilla folks avoid it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TIFF#Exploits

- --Rob
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