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my build machine for bromite development
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Add JPEG XL Support #336

Closed OkyDooky closed 1 year ago

OkyDooky commented 1 year ago

Firstly, thank you for this project. It is extremely helpful. However, Google is being a butt when it comes to this new image format and it's screwing up adoption rates for both users and industry giants (like Facebook and Adobe, among others). Thankfully, the people contributing to Thorium have made a Chromium patch that re-adds JXL support and (I think) stays up to date with changes to the main libjxl code. This should be doable to add, since the Android verison of Thorium also retains this patch and it seems to work fine out of the box.

I'm asking for this browser to include it, partly to increase the number of options for mobile browsers that support the format, but also because this has a ton of features that Thorium does not, like adblock, removed Google elements, the ability to import and export bookmarks, and has significantly smaller installed size (~330MB vs ~460MB). The last one is helpful for people like me who have devices with smaller internal storage (32GB), since this would mean not having to juggle two large Chromium browsers just to get their respective features.

Thanks again.

OkyDooky commented 1 year ago

In the JXL Discord, another user shared a different patch that seemed more straightforward to them: https://github.com/OpenMandrivaAssociation/chromium-browser-stable/blob/master/chromium-restore-jpeg-xl-support.patch