Firefox Nightly now supports AVIF format by default
During the summer, Google Chrome and Firefox jointly announced that they would support the AVIF image format, which is a tax-free image format launched by the Alliance for Open Media.
The advantage of this image format is that it is completely open-source without payment, has excellent compression performance, and can effectively reduce the image volume without reducing the image quality.
The Alliance for Open Media was jointly initiated by many technology giants. At present, the main task of the Alliance for Open Media is to develop tax-free image formats and video formats.
In terms of browser support, both Google and Firefox browsers have announced their support, and AVIF images can be displayed after enabling the experimental option in the beta version.
After a period of testing, Firefox believes that the current AVIF image support is complete. According to Mozilla, although some issues have been encountered incompatibility before, it has now been resolved, and the related format support has been stable and reliable.
Therefore, in subsequent versions, Firefox will remove related experimental options, and of course, it will directly support AVIF without the need for users to manually open the experimental options.
After the Christmas holiday, the engineers of Mozilla have returned to work, and various new functions and planned tasks are currently being actively developed including AVIF image support.
According to the latest instructions issued by Mozilla, the AVIF support option is now enabled by default in the Firefox Nightly version without manual adjustment by the user.
If you are using Windows 10 system, it is best to install the extension released by Microsoft. After installing the extension, the system can also support the AVIF image format.
This extension is released by Microsoft and only supports Windows 10 system. Of course, whether it is installed or not will not affect the normal use of browsers such as Google and Firefox.
After the user installs the extension, the system’s own drawing and resource manager can preview AVIF images, and other image software needs to be updated by the developer to support it.
AV1 Video Extension for Windows 10 1809 and above version, you click here to jump to the Microsoft Store to install it.
