# Intent to Ship: JPEG XL

DevFeed: [Intent to Ship: JPEG XL](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/intent-to-ship-jpeg-xl-4154.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://hacks.mozilla.org/2026/08/intent-to-ship-jpeg-xl/>)

Author: Jake Archibald

Published: 2026-08-24T15:32:15Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/mozilla-hacks-the-web-developer-blog.md>)

Topics: [Firefox](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/firefox.md>), [Web](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/web.md>), [Rust](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/rust.md>), [Firefox Nightly](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/firefox-nightly.md>), [Google](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/google.md>), [Chrome](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/chrome.md>), [C++](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/c-plus-plus.md>)

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## AI overview

Mozilla announces its intent to ship JPEG XL in Firefox, using Google Research's Rust-based jxl-rs decoder to provide secure, performant support. The article highlights progressive rendering and compares JPEG XL with AVIF for different image-compression use cases.

## Source excerpt

It isn't often that new image formats land in browsers. In the early 2000s we had JPEG, GIF, and PNG. The 2010s gave us WebP, which was a modest step up from JPEG. But the 2020s have given us two new image formats that are a big step up from previous formats: AVIF and JPEG [...] The post Intent to Ship: JPEG XL appeared first on Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog.