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Chrome Ships JPEG XL Support in Version 155
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Chrome developers announce that the browser will ship decoding support for the JPEG XL image format starting from Chrome 155. This next-generation format offers 30-50% better compression than JPEG and includes built-in HDR support. The team reimplemented the decoder in Rust to ensure memory safety first, utilizing the targetfeature11 Rust feature for SIMD instructions without requiring unsafe code.
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