Google is quietly bringing JPEG XL back to Chrome, reopening a battle with the old format that the web never really resolved
JPEG XL decoding is now part of Chromium’s core rendering pipeline Rust-based decoding addresses long-standing browser memory security issues JPEG XL support comes without extensions or external browser plugins Google has reinstated support for the JPEG XL image format in the open source Chromium codebase, reversing a decision it made in 2022 to remove it. […]









