Three years after tearing JPEG XL out, Chrome carries a decoder again: the memory-safe Rust jxl-rs rather than C++ libjxl, gated behind enable-jxl-image-format and off by default. Nothing decodes for real visitors yet, but the code being in the tree at all is the reversal the format’s supporters spent those three years arguing for. Default-on is expected in the second half of 2026 if the launch criteria hold.
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