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Dear : Please stop saving images as webp when I drag them out of the browser. Forever stop that. Even if they are webp originally, just give me a setting to auto-convert them to JPEG. When I (mastodon.online)

submitted 7 months ago by MisterMoo@mastodon.online to c/firefox@lemmy.ml

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Dear @firefox : Please stop saving images as webp when I drag them out of the browser. Forever stop that. Even if they are webp originally, just give me a setting to auto-convert them to JPEG. When I get a webp file the first thing I have to do is convert it manually if I'm going to do *anything* with it.

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[-] Heavybell@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

If you hate webp because you can't easily view it, let me recommend ImageGlass as a replacement image viewer for Windows (maybe Linux too, I forget).

[-] the_third@feddit.de 1 points 7 months ago

because you can't easily view it

What? Every image viewer on my system opens webp.

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[-] woelkchen@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

Report your suggestion on bugzilla.mozilla.org and don't tag a 3rd party Firefox community.

[-] MisterMoo@mastodon.online -3 points 7 months ago

@woelkchen Thanks for the tip that this is an unofficial community.

[-] dragonarchitect@rubber.social 2 points 6 months ago

@MisterMoo @firefox Echoing this!!! Stop it with webp entirely!!! NONE of the applications I use accept webp as input where images need to be uploaded! Not even Discord!

[-] eruchitanda@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Isn't ImageMagick available on Windows too?

[-] Jencen@furry.engineer 1 points 6 months ago

@MisterMoo @firefox I use the extension "Don't accept image/webp" don't know if that would help for your use case. but it does do it for the right click/saveas

[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 7 months ago

I want youtube downloads to stop being in webm. I set my gui app that downloads to prefer mp4 even if it's lower quality. I will do the same with my command line tools when I get around to it or get frustrated enough that they aren't supported by QuickLook on my Mac.

[-] Hedgewizard@beige.party 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

@MisterMoo @firefox

I was looking for a fix that didn't involve yet another extension, but only found how to block webp entirely which would just result in broken image links. Sadly i also found that this is a security vulnerability, likely deliberate for data harvesting, and has been a problem for FOUR YEARS. It's only the incidence that is picking up now.

[-] Marthnn@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

I just change the file extension to PNG and call it a day. Somehow it fixes all my compatibility issues.

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