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Firefox 152 Now Available with JPEG-XL Support

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Re: Firefox 152 Now Available with JPEG-XL Support

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

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

Re: Firefox 152 Now Available with JPEG-XL Support

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Sure, most, see e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPEG_XL#Official_software_supp...

> As of 2026, web browsers that support JPEG XL had 14% market share From your link.

https://caniuse.com/jpeg

huh, yeah, says 14.12%... i could have sworn it's on by default in chromium now? it worked in my browser!

nevermind, i had the flag enabled previously :/

https://jpegxl.info/resources/jpeg-xl-test-page.html

Re: Firefox 152 Now Available with JPEG-XL Support

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

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

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

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