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Thanks to CTOnews.com netizen Coje_He for the clue delivery! CTOnews.com February 1 news, Firefox Firefox Nightly version has added support for JPEG-XL image format, and users are invited to test it. Mozilla officials finally officially responded to whether or not to support the JPEG-XL format, and said it was "neutral".

Google announced last December that it would remove support for the JPEG-XL image format from its Chrome / Chromium web browser.

Google engineers believe that there is not enough interest in JPEG-XL and that the format does not have enough advantages over existing image formats. Google plans to withdraw its support for JPEG-XL in Chrome 110, and action is already under way.

It is not clear whether Mozilla will follow Google's actions, saying only that it will be "neutral". CTOnews.com attached Mozilla's official Martin Thomson comments:

We asked a large number of users and experts (sorry for the delay) and came to the conclusion that we were neutral to JPEG-XL.

I have to admit that the reasons given by both sides are quite strong. Whether it's us (it's important to add, protect, and maintain code), and for the Internet as a whole, adding new image formats comes at a price.

Overall, fewer formats are conducive to the development of Web, reducing the complexity of authoring and providing content. We will provide as many formats as possible to meet the needs of users and developers.

We will make a comprehensive evaluation based on the functionality and overall performance of the format, including a series of factors such as compression ratio, CPU cost and image quality.

We can also look at the scope of use of a format; for widely used formats, the functional and performance advantages are not important. The new format needs to justify its promotion and provide some advantages that the existing format cannot have.

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Google Chrome / Chromium browser has removed support for JPEG-XL image format

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