Back in 2022 was the surprising decision by Google that they were going to deprecate JPEG-XL image support in Chrome. By the end of 2022 they went ahead and removed JPEG-XL support from Chrome/Chromium to the frustration of many web developers and end-users interested in this image format. Now though as we get ready to roll into 2026, Google engineers are looking at bringing back JPEG-XL support to the Chrome web browser.

In the years since other projects have continued embracing JPEG-XL image support, JPEG-XL continues seeing interest alongside WebP / AVIF / etc, and indeed was a poor by Google to prematurely remove JPEG-XL support from their web browser.