Mozilla remains neutral on whether to follow up on JPEG-XL format in Firefox

Mozilla is neutral on whether Firefox will follow Chrome in canceling the JPEG-XL format. Before that, Chrome had already canceled the JPEG-XL format. Will Firefox do the same thing?

Support for the JPEG-XL image format has been added to the Firefox Nightly version of the Firefox browser, and users are invited to conduct related tests.

Mozilla finally officially responded to whether it supports the JPEG-XL format and expressed a "neutral" attitude.

Google announced in December that it would remove support for the JPEG-XL image format in the 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 remove support for JPEG-XL in Chrome 110, and related actions have already begun.

# It is unclear whether Mozilla will follow Google's actions. The official only stated that it will maintain a "neutral" attitude.

Attached is Mozilla’s Martin Thomson’s official comment:

We asked a large number of users and experts (sorry, this delayed the time), and the final conclusion is: We have a clear understanding of JPEG-XL Stay neutral.

One thing I have to admit is that the reasons given by both parties are quite sufficient. Adding new image formats comes at a cost, both for us (it's important to add, protect, and maintain code) and for the Internet as a whole.

Overall, fewer formats are good for the Web, reducing the complexity of creating and delivering content. We will provide as many formats as possible within the scope of meeting the needs of users and developers.

We will make a comprehensive evaluation based on the features provided by the format, overall performance and other factors, including a series of factors such as compression rate, CPU cost and image quality.

We can also look at how widely a format is used; for widely used formats, functionality and performance advantages are less important. The new format needs to justify its promotion and offer some advantage over existing formats.

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