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Firefox will consider a Rust implementation of JPEG-XL (with Google's help) (github.com)
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[–] dan@upvote.au 16 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It's likely that Google offered, and Mozilla doesn't have a reason to say no. Google Research do this for a bunch of open source projects.

Chrome needs a JPEG-XL decoder too, so I'd guess they're going to share the code across both Chrome and Firefox.