Microsoft Edge is preparing to provide AVIF format support, lagging behind other major browsers for two years.

Thanks to CTOnews.com netizens Wu Yanzu in South China for the delivery of clues! CTOnews.com April 19, Microsoft finally began to add AVIF support to Edge browsers, two years later than Firefox, Google and Apple browsers.

Twitter user Leopeva64 has successfully enabled AVIF in the Edge Canary version, and AVIF support has not been enabled by default in the Edge Canary version. Users who want to enable this feature may be able to do so using the command line flag "- enable-features=msEdgeAVIF". However, this means that it should not be too far to support the AVIF format in the stable version of Edge.

According to CTOnews.com, AVIF or AV1 image file format (AV1 Image File Format) is a kind of image coding based on AV1 video coding. Like AV1 coding, AVIF can provide more efficient coding than other more common image formats. For example, Vimeo found that AVIF achieved higher video multi-method evaluation fusion (VMAF) scores than WebP and JPEG.

Google Chrome browser first supported the AVIF format in Chrome 85, followed by Mozilla, which added support to Firefox 93, which was released in October 2021. In 2022, Google added AVIF image support to the Chrome 103version, and Apple followed suit in the Safari version 16.0of iOS 16.