How to enable JPEG XL compatibility in Google Chrome
JPEG XL is a new image format with very exciting features that will gradually replace older formats. At the moment, we can find many websites and images that already use the respective format. This is why it is essential to enable JPEG XL compatibility in Google Chrome and not miss any photos.
What is JPEG XL?
It is a new graphics file format developed to support a high level of lossless compression. The image encoder comes with many functions. JPEG XL helps websites display images more clearly, consume fewer resources and adapt to different screen resolutions.
This new format provides a much better image quality to weight ratio than the old JPEG format. It is intended for computationally efficient encryption and decryption, via software, without hardware support, even on mobile devices.
Thanks to its compression ability, JPEG XL is able to reduce the size of images by up to 60% compared to the old JPEG format. This allows many images to be stored while maintaining excellent quality. In turn, many websites will be able to load such images in a faster way, without sacrificing quality.
How to enable JPEG XL support for Google Chrome
As of Google Chrome version 91, this format is already supported. Although JPEG XL format support is disabled by default; This is because it is still in beta.
But we can activate it using "Tags" or from the experimental functions section of Google Chrome. For this we will have to open a new tab and type chrome://flags and press Enter.
So we can enable compatibility with JPEG XL
Next, we go to the search engine located at the top and we will type "JPEG". We will find an entry that says "Enable JXL Image Format" or "Enable JXL Image Format". In order to enable it, we will click on the dropdown menu on the right and change to “Enabled”.
Restart Google Chrome
After that we will have to restart Chrome. Now we can view images in JPEG XL format.
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