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Increasingly some servers are delivering jpg images as webp which gets obvious when I right-click and 'save as'. I'm not a big fan of this behavior and not too keen on adding webp files to my collection.

One way to prevent this, is for the browser to tell the server that it can't handle webp.

The Firefox add-on below works for me.

https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/dont-accept-webp/ https://superuser.com/questions/1179401/how-to-disable-webp-images-in-chrome

Increasingly some servers are delivering jpg images as webp which gets obvious when I right-click and 'save as'. I'm not a big fan of this behavior and not too keen on adding webp files to my collection. One way to prevent this, is for the browser to tell the server that it can't handle webp. The Firefox add-on below works for me. https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/dont-accept-webp/ https://superuser.com/questions/1179401/how-to-disable-webp-images-in-chrome

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[–] • 1 pt

Serious question, why is webp so bad? I see Poal bans them. I actually use them from time to time because they produce smaller file sizes in many cases than .jpg or .png. Every browser I test on displays them properly. So what's up?

[–] • 4 pts

I see it as twofold:

1: Google trying to enforce a new, google-controlled standard on the world. It's an answer to a question no one asked, and a solution to a problem no one had.

2: Nothing else supports it, even some Google services won't accept them as valid image files.

[–] • 1 pt

Interesting.

[–] • 1 pt

2 may go away with time, but the standard has been out long enough that things should support it now - but they don't. At least the services I use don't, others may.

Google isn't as relevant as they once were, I guess.

[–] • 2 pts
[–] • 0 pt

Thanks! I'll stop using them.