Neowin News Feed for: Avif

QuickView 5.2.3

Razvan Serea — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 19:38:01 +0000

QuickView is a blazing fast Windows image viewer supporting WebP, AVIF, JPEG XL, RAW, and PSD. Instant previews, drag-and-drop, and zero-lag viewing for all users. Read more...

QuickView 5.0.0

Razvan Serea — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 23:00:02 +0000

QuickView is a blazing fast Windows image viewer supporting WebP, AVIF, JPEG XL, RAW, and PSD. Instant previews, drag-and-drop, and zero-lag viewing for all users. Read more...

QuickView 4.2.5

Razvan Serea — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 09:12:01 +0000

QuickView is a blazing fast Windows image viewer supporting WebP, AVIF, JPEG XL, RAW, and PSD. Instant previews, drag-and-drop, and zero-lag viewing for all users. Read more...

QuickView 4.0.5

Razvan Serea — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 21:06:02 +0000

QuickView is a blazing fast Windows image viewer supporting WebP, AVIF, JPEG XL, RAW, and PSD. Instant previews, drag-and-drop, and zero-lag viewing for all users. Read more...

QuickView 4.0.2

Razvan Serea — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 13:48:01 +0000

QuickView is a blazing fast Windows image viewer supporting WebP, AVIF, JPEG XL, RAW, and PSD. Instant previews, drag-and-drop, and zero-lag viewing for all users. Read more...

QuickView 4.0 adds JPEG XL support and faster large image handling

Razvan Serea — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 16:30:01 +0000

QuickView is a blazing fast Windows image viewer supporting WebP, AVIF, JPEG XL, RAW, and PSD. Instant previews, drag-and-drop, and zero-lag viewing for all users. Read more...

QuickView - Fast image viewer for WebP, AVIF, JPEG XL

Razvan Serea — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 00:00:01 +0000

QuickView is a fast Windows image viewer supporting WebP, AVIF, JPEG XL, RAW, and PSD. Instant previews, drag-and-drop, and zero-lag viewing for all users. Read more...

XL Converter 1.2.3

Razvan Serea — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 17:20:01 +0000

Easy-to-use image converter with fast parallel encoding. Supports JPEG XL, AVIF, JPEGLI, lossless JPEG transcoding, ExifTool, and more. Read more...

XL Converter 1.2.2

Razvan Serea — Sun, 01 Jun 2025 14:34:01 +0000

Easy-to-use image converter with fast parallel encoding. Supports JPEG XL, AVIF, JPEGLI, lossless JPEG transcoding, ExifTool, and more. Read more...

Convert JXL to PNG, JPEG, and more with XL Converter 1.2.1

Razvan Serea — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 16:00:02 +0000

Easy-to-use image converter with fast parallel encoding. Supports JPEG XL, AVIF, JPEGLI, lossless JPEG transcoding, ExifTool, and more. Read more...

Microsoft Edge 121 is now available with AVIF and AV1 support, E-trees in Wallet, and more

Taras Buria — Fri, 26 Jan 2024 02:16:01 +0000

Microsoft is rolling out Edge 121 to all users in the Stable Channel. The latest release brings AVIF image support, the ability to grow virtual trees in Wallet, security fixes, and more. Read more...

Microsoft Edge 121 finally brings AVIF support

Taras Buria — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 22:02:01 +0000

Microsoft Edge 121, which is currently available in Beta and scheduled for the Stable Channel in January 2024, will finally catch up with Chrome, Safari, and Firefox in terms of AVIF image support. Read more...

After AVIF, senior Microsoft exec confirms WebP support on Windows 11 Photos app

Sayan Sen — Thu, 18 May 2023 06:42:01 +0000

Microsoft quietly added a major feature to its new Photos app on Windows 11. The software now supports the WebP image format, which is said to more efficient that older, more common formats. Read more...

Firefox 113 is out: improved Picture-in-Picture, search bar, password manager, and many more

Taras Buria — Tue, 09 May 2023 14:16:01 +0000

Mozilla has released Firefox 113, delivering a massive feature-packed update to all users. A better PiP, improved search bar and password manager, revamped accessibility engine, and many more. Read more...

As AV1 is still slowly taking off, experimental support for next gen AV2 lands

Sayan Sen — Fri, 05 May 2023 18:12:01 +0000

The AV1 codec was released back in 2018 and even today, the technology is slowly being adopted. Over five years later, AOMedia has now started to add experimental support for the succeeding AV2. Read more...

Microsoft Weekly: LAPS and Windows Taskbar, Samsung ditching Google rumors, and app updates

Usama Jawad — Sat, 22 Apr 2023 18:16:01 +0000

The latest edition of Microsoft Weekly contains all you would need to know about the latest events that transpired in the world of Microsoft during the past week, dive right in without further ado! Read more...

Microsoft Edge is finally getting AVIF support, long after Firefox, Google Chrome and Safari

Sayan Sen — Mon, 17 Apr 2023 06:40:01 +0000

Microsoft is working on AVIF support on Edge Canary. This means the browser will finally receive support for AVIF images, something which has worked on Firefox, Google Chrome, and Safari for a while. Read more...

Linux Mint 21.2 will be known as “Victoria”, due at the end of June

Paul Hill — Tue, 31 Jan 2023 16:54:01 +0000

Linux Mint 21.2 will be released at the end of June carrying the codename "Victoria", the project's head has said today. Some upcoming features were also shown off, read on to find out more. Read more...

Safari in iOS 16 finally supports AVIF images, coming to macOS and iPadOS soon

Usama Jawad — Tue, 13 Sep 2022 06:48:02 +0000

Apple's release of iOS 16 also contains a new version of Safari which features support for AVIF images. Chrome and Firefox already support AVIF, which leaves mainly Microsoft Edge as the odd one out. Read more...

Google Chrome 103 is landing today with faster page loads and local font access

Usama Jawad — Tue, 21 Jun 2022 09:00:02 +0000

Google Chrome 103 will be rolling out later today. This is a significant release that features a re-implementation of Chrome's pre-rendering method to improve speed, along with access to local fonts. Read more...

Mozilla releases Firefox 93 with AVIF image support

Paul Hill — Tue, 05 Oct 2021 17:26:01 +0000

Mozilla has released Firefox 93 with AVIF image support, SmartBlock 3.0, warnings against insecure downloads and performance improvements. Your installation should automatically update to Firefox 93. Read more...

Vimeo improves page load times with support for AVIF images

Usama Jawad — Fri, 04 Jun 2021 04:10:01 +0000

Vimeo has announced support for AVIF images which offer comparable quality while lowering file size. This will improve page load times and bandwidth consumption on browsers which support it. Read more...

Cloudflare Image Resizing adds support for AVIF images

Paul Hill — Sat, 03 Oct 2020 17:02:01 +0000

Cloudflare has added support for the AVIF image format to its Image Resizing service. AVIF is only supported by Opera and Chrome right now but brings big improvements to image compression. Read more...