Mozilla's new image encoder compresses images 5 percent more, Facebook buys in

Mozilla today announced the release of mozjpeg 2.0, an enhanced version of it’s original mozjpeg image encoder. The new encoder provides larger compression improvements than previous encoders. Mozilla says mozjpeg jand can compress both baseline and progressive JPEGs, reducing the size of either by an average 5 percent, with many images showing significantly larger reductions. Previous versions of […]