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How to Enable AVIF Thumbnails in Nautilus and Support for Other GTK Apps

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9to5linux.com; By Marius Nestor
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In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to enable thumbnails for AVIF (AV1) images in the Nautilus file manager, as well as AVIF image support for other GTK apps that do not support this format by default.

AVIF is not a new format, but it’s not yet used as much as other lossy and lossless image formats, such as the now-popular WebP, despite the fact that it is already supported by widely used web browsers like Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome/Chromium.

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