librewolf launcher skips gvfs (GIO_USE_VFS=local); bump stale meta pins

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

docs/superpowers/evidence/librewolf-local-gio-2026-11-01.json

@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+{
+  "intent": "LibreWolf opens in seconds instead of ~4 min after login: it no longer waits on gvfs D-Bus calls that hit the 25 s timeout.",
+  "scope": [
+    "linux_configuration/scripts/librewolf-local-gio.sh (symlinked as ~/.local/bin/librewolf)",
+    "meta/requirements.txt, meta/requirements-test.txt: stale pins that kept the Pre-commit CI baseline red",
+    "Non-goal: the .desktop entry (calls /usr/lib/librewolf/librewolf directly); launcher is PATH-based"
+  ],
+  "changes": [
+    "PATH wrapper exec's /usr/bin/librewolf with GIO_USE_VFS=local, same pattern as krita-scaled.sh",
+    "anthropic 2.1.0->2.3.0 (CI finding) plus 17 other patch/minor pins bumped to newest stable"
+  ],
+  "verification": [
+    {
+      "command": "check_librewolf_gio.sh (Xvfb, throwaway profile, reads /proc/<pid>/environ)",
+      "result": "pass",
+      "evidence": "wrapper on PATH: PASS; /usr/bin/librewolf only: FAIL: GIO_USE_VFS not set; user confirmed real launch is fast"
+    },
+    {
+      "command": "scripts/check_dependency_freshness.sh meta/requirements.txt meta/requirements-test.txt && uv pip compile -p 3.14 both",
+      "result": "pass",
+      "evidence": "exit=0, no findings; RESOLVES"
+    }
+  ],
+  "risks": [
+    "GTK dialogs inside LibreWolf lose gvfs URIs (smb://, sftp://)",
+    "Minor bumps (flake8 7.5, pyflakes 4.1, prospector 1.20, python-kasa 0.12) may surface new lint findings"
+  ],
+  "rollback": [
+    "rm ~/.local/bin/librewolf restores /usr/bin/librewolf; git revert for the pins",
+    "After rollback: `command -v librewolf` prints /usr/bin/librewolf"
+  ]
+}

linux_configuration/scripts/librewolf-local-gio.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+#
+# LibreWolf launcher (shadows /usr/bin/librewolf on PATH).
+#   GIO_USE_VFS=local -> GIO skips gvfs entirely. Right after login gvfs's
+#   D-Bus calls can hang for the 25 s D-Bus timeout each; LibreWolf made ~9 of
+#   them serially and took ~4 min to open (2026-11-01). Cost: GTK dialogs lose
+#   gvfs URIs (smb://, sftp://), which LibreWolf never needed.
+#
+exec env GIO_USE_VFS=local /usr/bin/librewolf "$@"

meta/requirements-test.txt

@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
 # suite itself fails loudly here on a missing import.
 # ==============================================================================
 
-anthropic==2.1.0
+anthropic==2.3.0
 beautifulsoup4==4.15.0
 coverage==7.17.0
 defusedxml==0.7.1
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ genanki==0.13.1
 markdownify==1.2.3
 numpy==2.5.4
 pillow==13.0.0
-pytest==9.1.1
+pytest==9.2.0
 pytest-cov==7.1.0
 pytest-randomly==5.0.0
 pytest-sugar==1.1.1

meta/requirements.txt

@@ -22,10 +22,10 @@ dead==2.1.0
 defusedxml==0.7.1
 docformatter==1.7.8
 fixit==2.2.1
-flake8==7.4.1
-flake8-annotations==3.3.0
+flake8==7.5.0
+flake8-annotations==3.3.1
 flake8-bandit==4.1.1
-flake8-bugbear==26.9.30
+flake8-bugbear==26.10.27
 flake8-comprehensions==3.17.0
 flake8-docstrings==1.7.0
 flake8-eradicate==1.5.0
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ gatelock @ git+https://github.com/kuhyx/utils@gatelock-v0.11.0#subdirectory=gate
 genanki==0.13.1
 geopandas==1.2.0
 howlongtobeatpy==1.0.24
-hypothesis==6.170.9
+hypothesis==6.170.14
 importlib-metadata==10.1.0
 interrogate==1.7.0
 # isort is deliberately not pinned: nothing here imports it (ruff's isort
@@ -50,43 +50,43 @@ lxml==6.1.3
 markdownify==1.2.3
 matplotlib==3.11.2
 mccabe==0.7.0
-mypy==2.4.0
+mypy==2.4.1
 numpy==2.5.4
 opencv-python==5.0.0.93
 pillow==13.0.0
 pip-audit==2.10.1
-pipdeptree==4.2.9
+pipdeptree==4.2.13
 pre-commit==4.7.0
-prospector==1.19.1
+prospector==1.20.0
 pycodestyle==2.15.0
 pydocstyle==6.3.0
-pyflakes==4.0.3
+pyflakes==4.1.0
 pygame==2.6.1
 pylint==4.1.3
 pyright==1.1.414
-pytest==9.1.1
+pytest==9.2.0
 pytest-cov==7.1.0
 pytest-randomly==5.0.0
 pytest-sugar==1.1.1
 pytest-timeout==2.4.0
 pytest-xdist==3.8.0
 python-chess==1.999
-python-kasa==0.11.0.1
+python-kasa==0.12.0
 pyupgrade==3.22.0
 radon==6.0.1
 reorder-python-imports==3.19.0
 requests==2.34.2
 rich==15.0.0
-ruff==0.17.2
+ruff==0.17.3
 # safety is deliberately not pinned: its only reference in this repo is a
 # commented-out pre-commit hook, and safety 3.8.1 declares `typer<0.26`,
 # which would hold the typer this repo actually imports below latest.
 secretstorage==3.5.0
-selenium==4.51.0
+selenium==4.52.0
 typer==0.27.3
-types-python-dateutil==2.9.0.20261021
-types-PyYAML==6.0.12.20260906
-types-requests==2.33.0.20261006
+types-python-dateutil==2.9.0.20261029
+types-PyYAML==6.0.12.20261030
+types-requests==2.33.0.20261030
 types-setuptools==84.0.0.20261006
 typing_extensions==4.16.0  # Self annotation on py310 target (session_autopsy store lock)
-websockets==17.3
+websockets==17.4