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  • Browser makers Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla have announced Interop 2024, a project to promote web browser interoperability.
  • JPEG XL, a potential replacement for JPEG and PNG image formats, was not included in Interop 2024.
  • The rejection of JPEG XL has been blamed on Google, with the Google Chrome team deciding not to support the image compression technology.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (4 children)

I expected Mozilla to implement this, I don't know how they expect to get marketshare by just following in Google's footsteps every step of the way.
Is Firefox it's own browser or just Chrome with a different engine? Even Apple support jxl, well the decoding anyway.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Because Mozilla really doesn't care about what people think anymore. They're an incredibly bureaucratic group dealing with a lot of red tape placed as a force for good that doesn't always meet the mark. It's mainly the reason Firefox doesn't have a lot of things (that it honestly should have)

Also, Firefox is a completely original browser but it doesn't have a "chromium" version the browser like Google Chrome does. Both of the Firefox commercial product and the source code compile to the same thing.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I know, it was a rhetorical question given the stance they take on a lot of things always aligning with what Google wants.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

Hey friend, for what its worth when i read your question, i was very much channeling this Garth Algar

But with your question about it being its own browser

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

Firefox is its own.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Follow the funding

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Is Firefox it’s own browser

Its own browser using the Gecko rendering engine.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

It was a tongue in cheek, rhetorical question, regarding what I said before it.