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posted by martyb on Wednesday November 14 2018, @04:05PM   Printer-friendly
from the submit-all-your-pics-to-Google dept.

Google Chrome Labs releases open source, browser-based image optimization tool, Squoosh

As web pages have advanced over the years, they have also dramatically increased in size. This has gradually contributed to pages loading slower and slower. To help web developers easily optimize their pages, Google Chrome Labs has released a new web tool called Squoosh that can downsize, compress, and reformat images.

[...] Supporting a variety of web formats like MozJPEG and WebP and traditional ones like PNG, Squoosh allows you to quickly make your images web-ready. The app is able to do 1:1 visual comparisons of the original image and its compressed counterpart, to help you understand the pros and cons of each format.

Squoosh.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 14 2018, @04:36PM (5 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 14 2018, @04:36PM (#761780)

    The Goog giveth (masses of ads and code) and the Goog taketh away (unnecessary image resolution).

    • (Score: 2) by takyon on Wednesday November 14 2018, @04:47PM (2 children)

      by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Wednesday November 14 2018, @04:47PM (#761787) Journal

      Profound.

      Squoosh.
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      • (Score: -1, Offtopic) by NPC-131072 on Wednesday November 14 2018, @06:44PM (1 child)

        by NPC-131072 (7144) on Wednesday November 14 2018, @06:44PM (#761839) Journal

        The only thing Google should be "sqooshing" is harmful gender stereotypes in the workplace!

        • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday November 14 2018, @09:13PM

          by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday November 14 2018, @09:13PM (#761914) Journal

          Google should sqoosh the number of genders it recognizes from 89 down to something better, like 87.

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 14 2018, @07:09PM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 14 2018, @07:09PM (#761852)

      We need bigger and bigger pixel formats just so we can squoosh them down more and more to conveniently look at them.

  • (Score: 4, Informative) by Snotnose on Wednesday November 14 2018, @05:11PM (8 children)

    by Snotnose (1623) on Wednesday November 14 2018, @05:11PM (#761796)

    Images arern't the problem. It's all the tracking and advertising scripts that come with every page. A 2 meg download for a 35k png file is silly.

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    • (Score: 5, Insightful) by takyon on Wednesday November 14 2018, @05:41PM (1 child)

      by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Wednesday November 14 2018, @05:41PM (#761806) Journal

      It's not for the visitor. It's for the webmaster. The 2 MB of ad scripts aren't a problem since its hosted somewhere else. So they optimize the images.

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      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 14 2018, @06:51PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 14 2018, @06:51PM (#761841)

        ​‍​‍.

    • (Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 14 2018, @09:00PM (5 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 14 2018, @09:00PM (#761908)

      uBlock Origin and NoScript likely save me a lot more bandwidth than Squoosh ever would.

      • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 14 2018, @09:29PM (4 children)

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 14 2018, @09:29PM (#761922)

        Go pro, try uMatrix. It will replace both.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 14 2018, @10:49PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 14 2018, @10:49PM (#761950)

          Seconded, uMatrix is excellent.

        • (Score: 2) by Absolutely.Geek on Thursday November 15 2018, @02:22AM

          by Absolutely.Geek (5328) on Thursday November 15 2018, @02:22AM (#762011)

          Agree uMatrix is great

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        • (Score: 2) by takyon on Thursday November 15 2018, @06:23AM (1 child)

          by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Thursday November 15 2018, @06:23AM (#762071) Journal

          Specifically, uMatrix offers the granular control I crave.

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          • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday November 15 2018, @03:23PM

            by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Thursday November 15 2018, @03:23PM (#762193) Journal

            . . . without the UI sugars that are not good for you.

            I strongly prefer uMatrix. On Chrome and Firefox.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 14 2018, @05:22PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 14 2018, @05:22PM (#761801)

    more proprietary shit that I can't right click and save-as on any non-blessed OS or otherwise having to be forced to view via their... browser.

    someone shoot them please. the net needs to be free again. we have enough other problems without them being microsoft.

    • (Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 14 2018, @06:25PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 14 2018, @06:25PM (#761827)

      It is released under Apache 2.0 License [github.com] and the code is downloadable from GitHub [github.com]...

    • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 14 2018, @09:44PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 14 2018, @09:44PM (#761929)

      The other day I had the misfortune of downloading a .webp image. I thought it was just a wrong extension for a jpeg or png file. But no, it is another format.

      Google wants to control everything about humans. They want their browser to be your only browser, their OS to be your only OS and so on. With khazar jewish filth behind it, can one expect something better?

      Stop using anything infected by khazar jewish vermin.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 15 2018, @12:31AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 15 2018, @12:31AM (#761983)

      Extra clicks, but searching for
          convert .webp to png (or jpg)
      generates plenty of hits.

  • (Score: 5, Informative) by zemm on Wednesday November 14 2018, @07:12PM (2 children)

    by zemm (7178) on Wednesday November 14 2018, @07:12PM (#761854)

    I tried it out, and at least for my daily needs as a web dev, TinyPNG.com is more straightforward and generally results in a smaller file.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 14 2018, @10:37PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 14 2018, @10:37PM (#761945)

      I'm guessing that Easy Thumbnails https://www.fookes.com/easy-thumbnails [fookes.com] is another good choice for the individual user. Gives complete control of image quality/compression and pixel dimensions, even the free version will thumbnail a whole folder/directory of images at one pass.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 15 2018, @02:42PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 15 2018, @02:42PM (#762168)

      yeah but that isnt sponsored by google and being pushed for use in their chrome browser that most consumers needing to be marketed to are using as their default browser, for some reason.

      which means anything better won't be considered because it requires too much effort than automatic and free.

  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 14 2018, @09:50PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 14 2018, @09:50PM (#761931)

    Making something Apache or other license does not make it free. By free, it means having been seen by a lot of eyes over years to catch any bugs and eliminate any viruses added by jewish infiltrators and their friends.

    Just because someone made a piece of shitty code free does not mean everyone should start using it immediately. There is enough code in the world and we can live without googles'.

    Let google eat their own code, choke on it and then die.

  • (Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 15 2018, @01:56AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 15 2018, @01:56AM (#762006)

    Supporting a variety of web formats [...] and traditional ones like PNG

    ... I'm getting old!

  • (Score: 4, Informative) by LAV8.ORg on Thursday November 15 2018, @05:42AM

    by LAV8.ORg (6653) on Thursday November 15 2018, @05:42AM (#762059)

    I roll my own fractal art, so no shortage of large, maximally detailed images to test it with. Unfortunately it seems they didn't bother to code for actually large images (you know, the ones that really need compressing); it calls any image in the hundreds of MB invalid, and for the tens of MB it is all pinwheels of death and aw snaps.

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