"A recent commit to integrate and enable the JXL decoder means that future releases of Google Chrome and other Chromium-based browsers will include code to process and present JXL images. The format's supporters argue JXL can be used to recompress existing JPEG images without loss so they're 20 percent smaller, which alone would represent a significant bandwidth saving for websites and content delivery networks."
"Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox initially implemented experimental support for JXL behind a settings flag in 2021, based on the possibility that JXL might be able to replace older JPEG and PNG formats. A year later, Google Chrome engineers abandoned the open source image format by claiming "There is not enough interest from the entire ecosystem to continue experimenting with JPEG XL." They also argued the format "does not bring sufficient incremental benefits over existing formats to warrant enabling it by default." And they said that removing experimental support for the JXL code would reduce the maintenance burden."
Google has added JPEG XL support to the open source Chromium code base, reversing a 2022 decision to drop the format. A recent commit integrates and enables a JXL decoder so future Chrome and other Chromium-based browsers will include code to process and present JXL images. Supporters say JXL can recompress existing JPEG images losslessly to about 20 percent smaller, reducing bandwidth for websites and content delivery networks. JXL offers progressive decoding that prioritizes salient image elements and improved lossy and lossless compression compared with AVIF, MozJPEG, and WebP. JPEG XL originated from proposals in 2017 and was standardized in 2021 with a 2024 revision.
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