Those making use of the GNOME Web "Epiphany" web browser with the upcoming Ubuntu 25.04 release will be able to enjoy playing more popular web videos thanks to a packaging change.

With the newest Epiphany Browser 48 Beta packages for Debian unstable and Ubuntu, there is now a recommends in place on the "gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad" package. As noted by Ubuntu desktop engineer Jeremy Bicha of Canonical who made [1]the change , including the "bad" set of GStreamer plug-ins is enough to now play more popular web videos on Ubuntu by default when using this GNOME web browser.

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So moving forward you will be able to enjoy more video content within the Epiphany / GNOME Web browser on Ubuntu thanks to the expanded plug-in coverage. Some other recent Ubuntu desktop changes include landing JPEG-XL 0.11, preparing for [3]the Showtime app as the new video player app default expected for GNOME 49 , the newly-released [4]GIMP 3.0 RC3 is packaged for Ubuntu 25.04, and other updates as part of the GNOME 48 beta push.



[1] https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/desktop-team-integration-squad-updates-monday-10th-february-2025/54933/3

[2] https://www.phoronix.com/image-viewer.php?id=2025&image=epiphany_ubuntu_lrg

[3] https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-49-Showtime-Plan

[4] https://www.phoronix.com/news/GIMP-3.0-RC3-Released