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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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[–] Malgas@beehaw.org 2 points 2 hours 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?

[–] Ludrol@szmer.info 1 points 1 hour ago

Do they work in Firefox?

[–] markinov@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 5 hours ago

i just realized i can't see emojis from librewolf

[–] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] gay_sex@mander.xyz 1 points 9 hours ago

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

[–] Eggymatrix@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Try using a feature complete browser

[–] gay_sex@mander.xyz 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

librewolf is love, librewolf is life

[–] Eggymatrix@sh.itjust.works 4 points 8 hours ago

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

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 3 points 13 hours ago (1 children)
[–] gay_sex@mander.xyz 1 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)