One Tiny Firefox Compilation Flag Request To Annoy Google

27 August 2023, 13:08:43

Well, there is Bitreich Manifesto, so here is mine:

GOOGLE WILL NOT RULE MY WORLD. GOOGLE IS NOT THE INTERNET.

In Firefox (I hope you know the story of Google removing support for jxl...):

Is:
image.jxl.enabled --> false

Proposal to be the default in Aritx:
image.jxl.enabled --> true

Seems like Google is still sponsoring Mozilla and Mozilla bows down so they make their masters happy. Let's annoy them and use exclusively jxl. Everywhere.

How to post a text without google ever knowing or scraping (oh, they hate jxl...):
Fire up gimp, create PNG use text layer, merge it down and export it to JXL, then loselessly compress all your JPG photos to JXL:

$ for F in *.jpg; do cjxl -d 0 -e 9 $F `basename ${F%.jpg}`.jxl;done

Google will not dictate my world.

P.S. mogrify from imagemagick exits with kill, the above method is tested and it works (FYI: someone has to decide some syntaxes have -o, cjxl doesn't have -o, some others don't and wget has -O. Go figure.

UPDATE:

It turns out that Firefox DOES NOT support jxl. Turning ON the follwing two options:

1. browser.download.viewableInternally.typeWasRegistered.jxl
2. image.jxl.enabled

does not enable jxl support in Firefox. Its been like these for a long time (as of today - 9 months).

Tested and source is here (mozilla bug tracker):
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1805292