Firefox 152 Now Available with JPEG-XL Support

(phoronix.com)

50 points | by eln1 a day ago ago

13 comments

  • ksec a day ago

    Considering Apple's support and product cycle. You are looking at a Billion devices supporting JPEG XL between now and end of next year. It might be low in percentage, but it is still a substantial number.

  • y2244 a day ago

    As an aside - My Firefox updated the other day and now has no sign up VPN built in with multiple countries available to choose. Very welcome feature.

  • jadecarter68 a day ago

    I've been testing JPEG-XL on nightly, it's a lifesaver for high-res photos. Half the size of PNG with no quality loss.

    • nateb2022 a day ago

      What sites already are using JPEG-XL en masse?

  • intelkishan a day ago

    How is the support for JPEG-XL across other browsers and local photo viewer applications?

  • nextaccountic a day ago

    Is there any hardware accelerated jpeg xl implementation? Like VA-API's VAProfileJPEGBaseline for jpeg

    • throawayonthe a day ago

      could you tell more/point to resources about hw-accel jpegs? does it make a difference for some sort of pipeline/batch operations or 'normal' use too? are there issues with some jpeg features being unsupported? i haven't heard almost anything about this

      • nextaccountic 7 hours ago

        it's a throughput thing yes, or in my case it's also a desire to not hog the cpu with bulk image processing

        features like progressive jpegs and some color spaces aren't supported. I think it could be but it isn't and not sure why

        jpegs found in the wild will typically not make use of hardware acceleration or use just it for a subset of the decoding (not sure about the details). browsers didn't bother using hardware acceleration for jpegs just for the images that can be processed fine

        so it is meant for jpegs you control rather than jpegs you find on the web. unless you convert them yourself