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Firefox 152 Adds JPEG XL Support, Redesigned Settings (linuxiac.com) 30

Posted by BeauHD from the new-and-improved dept.
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Linuxiac: Mozilla has released Firefox 152, the latest update to its popular open-source web browser, with updated settings, improved media controls, experimental JPEG XL support, and various platform-specific fixes for desktop and Android. A key update is the redesigned Firefox Settings page, which now features clearer groupings, improved navigation, and a more streamlined structure for easier customization. The release also expands built-in spellchecker support, adding dictionaries for Croatian, English (UK), Georgian, Persian, Slovenian, Tajik, Tamil, Tibetan, Turkish, Welsh, and Xhosa. [...] Importantly, Firefox now offers experimental support for JPEG XL, an image format with improved compression over WebP, JPEG, PNG, and GIF. Users can enable JPEG XL in the Firefox Labs panel within Settings.
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  • Redesigned settings (Score:1)

    by Anonymous Coward

    Yeah, we all love that, don't we.

    • Does Mozilla expect to keep going another 10 years with the 25 year old lame JavaScript, html (XML overhead), CSS, and the pyramid of workarounds?

      It's all been in the "fortran forever" vein from them on the web standards for 20 years.

      (Yes, Fortran is good for a lot of scientific and other uses....)

  • Question (Score:2, Interesting)

    by smooth wombat ( 796938 )

    Have they removed the incessent harassment notifying you there is an update?

    There used to be a time when you checked a box, you were never harassed. Clear, simple, and useful.

    I guess that's no longer possible.

    • Re: (Score:3)

      by Targon ( 17348 )

      I will get an occasional need to reboot to install the latest update, but that's it. Unless you never close Firefox, the browser itself doesn't give that many messages. If you set different web pages to notify you, that's on you for turning THOSE notifications on.

      • I have updates turned off. Every time I open Fx after a shut down, it harasses me. Then, about a minute later, it does it again. Throughout the day it harasses me.

        If I tell it never to install updates unless I choose to, don't harass me.

        It used to be like that until a year or so ago. Check the box, never be harassed. Now it's incessant.

        • Re: (Score:2)

          by Targon ( 17348 )

          Have you considered going to Firefox ESR then if you don't want to be updating very often? A version that has frequent updates that you never want to install may not be for you.

          • Are you sure?
            I thought the ESR version was a Firefox version from the recent past with security updates released at the same time as the mainline Firefox gets updates. My version is 140.9.0 ESR but it may be a bit out of date, my Linux distribution has stopped providing updates for my release level and their new level pretty much bricked my test system when I tested it there.

            • ESR is a feature freeze version. So there will be much fewer changes and, thus, fewer updates and fewer new bugs which need updating as well. However, it will get all the same security updates as mainline, if they also affect the ESR version.

              So, overall, there will be fewer updates.

              As for complaining about getting update notifications, if you are using Linux with a distro package, it will get updated easily through that and there will be no notifications inside Firefox, itself. I have no idea about MS-Wi

              • Re: (Score:2)

                by AmiMoJo ( 196126 )

                On Windows you can also use a package manager like Winget or Chocolatey. To disable auto updates, go to Firefox's preferences and search for "update", it's right there as a toggle.

                There is also Librewolf that is a Firefox fork, or really more of a version with the default settings changed for maximum privacy, as I don't think there is much change to the code itself.

    • Try the group policy method
      https://support.mozilla.org/en... [mozilla.org]

    • Have they removed the incessent harassment notifying you there is an update?

      I haven't seen that in years. The best you get these days is when you run Firefox an an update magically happened there's a tab that opens to let you know what's new.

    • >"I guess that's no longer possible."

      I have answered this question numerous times on Slashdot (presumably for the same few people reasking it over and over for some reason). They disabled the ability to remove update notifications in the Mozilla-downloaded packages. That is very likely never going to change.

      If you are using Linux with a distro package, it will get updated easily through that and there will be no notifications inside Firefox, itself. I have no idea about MS-Windows or other platforms. I

    • Wake me when they add JPEG 2000 support.

      https://www.adobe.com/creativecloud/file-types/image/comparison/jpeg-vs-jpeg-2000.html [adobe.com]

      Claude says: JPEG XL beats JPEG 2000 on essentially every practical axis:

      **Compression efficiency** — JXL achieves better quality at smaller file sizes than JP2, both for lossy and lossless. At equivalent visual quality, JXL files are typically 20–60% smaller.

      **Lossless JPEG recompression** — JXL can losslessly re-encode existing JPEG files ~20% smaller, then decode back to the *identical* original JPEG bitstream. JP2 has no equivalent capability.

      **Speed** — JP2 (especially with its

    • Why would they do that? The only reason they added JPEG-XL support is PDF compliance since it's required by ISO 32000. Why would they go out of their way to add an unused and *worse* graphics standard to their browser?

      JPEG-2000 needs to die. It has less benefits than JPEG-XL and none of the support and staying power of JPEG. JPEG-2000 literally has no reason to exist in 2026.

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