Firefox 93 Enters Public Beta Testing with AVIF Support Enabled by Default

Posted by hanuca on Sep 7, 2021 9:27 PM EDT
9to5Linux; By Marius Nestor
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A few hours ahead of the launch of the Firefox 92 release, Mozilla promoted today the upcoming Firefox 93 web browser to the beta channel for public testing.

Here we go again. Firefox’s (probably) most delayed feature, the enablement of support for the AVIF image format by default, is now planned for the next major release of the popular, open-source, free, and cross-platform web browser used by millions of users worldwide on both desktop and mobile platforms.

Yes, I’m talking about Firefox 93, which just entered public beta testing today and the biggest new feature appears to be support for the new AV1 Image File Format (AVIF) next-generation image format based on the modern and royalty free AV1 video codec, which promises major bandwidth savings.

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