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I can't see emojis anymore, they don't work on librewolf.

I first noticed this under a post titled something like "try telling a story using only emojis". The comments were empty.

If I open the same page in brave browser, they work as intended. I can't see emojis in apps like libreoffice either. Is there a way to get system-wide emoji support?

(I am on Fedora 42)

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Make sure you have a font installed that supports emoji such as the Noto emoji font.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Installed, it probably is if it works in Brave... it might not be set up right in LibreWolf though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

probably, it works in Signal (the messenger app) as well

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Do they work in Firefox?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

I had a similar thing happen recently following a NixOS upgrade. I wonder if it's something that changed in Firefox.

In my case, the solution was to set useEmbeddedBitmaps = true in fontconfig. Which is unlikely to be directly helpful to you on Fedora, but maybe there's an equivalent option somewhere?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Try using a feature complete browser

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

librewolf is love, librewolf is life

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Then live life and love without emojis, we did fine without for most of history <3