diff --git a/codecs/oxipng/spawn.ts b/codecs/oxipng/spawn.ts
index f6c77093..59293615 100644
--- a/codecs/oxipng/spawn.ts
+++ b/codecs/oxipng/spawn.ts
@@ -19,7 +19,10 @@ async function startMainThread() {
 
   // First, let browser fetch and spawn Workers for our pool in the background.
   // This is fairly expensive, so we want to start it as early as possible.
-  const workers = Array.from({ length: num }, () => new Worker('./worker', { type: 'module' }));
+  const workers = Array.from({ length: num }, () => new Promise<Worker>((resolve) => {
+    const w = new Worker('./worker', { type: 'module' });
+    w.addEventListener('message', () => resolve(w), { once: true });
+  }));
 
   // Meanwhile, asynchronously compile, instantiate and initialise Wasm on our main thread.
   await initOxiPNG(fetch(wasmUrl), undefined as any);
@@ -38,7 +41,12 @@ async function startMainThread() {
   // If we didn't do this ping-pong game, the `start_main_thread` below would block the current
   // thread on an atomic before even *sending* the `postMessage` containing memory,
   // so Workers would never be able to unblock us back.
-  await Promise.all(workers.map(worker => initWorker(worker, workerInit)));
+
+  // TODO: remove this line.
+  // It waits for all workers to be created just to repro a possible V8 bug.
+  const resolvedWorkers = await Promise.all(workers);
+
+  await Promise.all(resolvedWorkers.map(worker => initWorker(worker, workerInit)));
 
   // Finally, instantiate rayon pool - this will use shared Wasm memory to send tasks to the
   // Workers and then block until they're all ready.
diff --git a/codecs/oxipng/worker.ts b/codecs/oxipng/worker.ts
index 69f60501..5a813fb7 100644
--- a/codecs/oxipng/worker.ts
+++ b/codecs/oxipng/worker.ts
@@ -4,6 +4,10 @@ import initOxiPNG, { start_worker_thread } from './pkg-parallel';
 
 export type WorkerInit = [WebAssembly.Module, WebAssembly.Memory];
 
+// TODO: remove this line.
+// It allows main thread to wait for a Worker to be created just to repro a possible V8 bug.
+postMessage(null);
+
 addEventListener(
   'message',
   async (event) => {
diff --git a/src/components/compress/index.tsx b/src/components/compress/index.tsx
index f48d0173..1657f8e1 100644
--- a/src/components/compress/index.tsx
+++ b/src/components/compress/index.tsx
@@ -232,7 +232,7 @@ export default class Compress extends Component<Props, State> {
       {
         latestSettings: {
           preprocessorState: defaultPreprocessorState,
-          encoderState: { type: mozJPEG.type, options: mozJPEG.defaultOptions },
+          encoderState: { type: oxiPNG.type, options: oxiPNG.defaultOptions },
         },
         loadingCounter: 0,
         loadedCounter: 0,