JPEG XL Support

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References

• Initial implementation for JXL - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1707590
• Support for JPEG XL in Firefox - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1539075
• JPEG XL Reference Software - https://gitlab.com/wg1/jpeg-xl
• Overview of JPEG XL - https://jpeg.org/jpegxl/

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A package packer for Fedora has introduced a Firefox package with JPEG XL enabled

Mercury browser (fork of firefox) has support for it by default. See: PATCHES.md.

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Temporary Solution

There's a firefox addon that works: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/jxl/. It uses a WebAssembly implementation of libjxl.

As of 1/07/2024, Testing on https://jpegxl.info/test-page/:

Animation doesn't work:

Changing page zoom levels breaks image size:

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Update

tl;dr: JPEG XL is still being worked on in Firefox

Ref: https://www.reddit.com/r/jpegxl/comments/1dz40g1/a_little_bit_of_progress_in_firefox/

Enabled ✔️ (d07d7a0)

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Firefox will consider a Rust implementation of JPEG-XL: mozilla/standards-positions#1064

Reddit post: https://www.reddit.com/r/jpegxl/comments/1f8aj5w/firefox_will_consider_a_rust_implementation_of/