How to stop downloading jfif files

[JPlissken]

I have been using Vivaldi for at least a couple years now, and I love it, and I never had this problem before. It started recently, in the past couple weeks. Every time I try to download an image using Vivaldi, it downloads as a .jfif file. I can't do anything with a .jfif file until I convert it to .jpg or .png first. I can't edit them, and in most cases websites won't accept them for uploads either. Once I do convert it, any transparent layers are lost, making clipart virtually impossible to use. This adds multiple steps to the process for any kind of photo editing or sharing. It has gotten to the point now that unless the Vivaldi team fixes this very soon, or if someone knows of a setting I can change to fix it, I will have to uninstall Vivaldi and find a different browser. And that will be a serious pain since I am a power user and I have gone to great lengths to customize this for everything I need. It would probably take months to get any other browser setup in a way that it could really replace Vivaldi for me. This is really absurd. What even is a .jfif? I've been a tech geek since like 1985. I'm literally a hacker, both hardware and software. I've never even heard of .jfif. I think I've seen it in a list of file types somewhere, but I don't think anyone on earth has ever used it. Of all the file types, why would you choose to automatically convert every image download to some random type that no program or website uses?

[iAN CooG]

@JPlissken said in How to stop downloading jfif files:

I can't do anything with a .jfif file until I convert it to .jpg

just rename them to .jpg, they just have an alternative extension not everyone uses.
JFIF=JPEG File Interchange Format, it's just one of the tags inside jpg files

I'm literally a hacker

heh, if you were actually one you should have figured it out already yourself by looking inside the files with an hexeditor, or even by searching "jfif extension" on the internet.

[JPlissken]

@iAN-CooG said in How to stop downloading jfif files:

heh, if you were actually one you should have figured it out already yourself by looking inside the files with an hexeditor, or even by searching "jfif extension" on the internet.

I'm not trying to hack a meme. I know it's an unusual image format that I can't use in photoshop and I can't upload to any website. I know that I can change it by renaming it when it downloads or by converting it after. In either case that is adding more work to every single image file that I download. That is all I need to know about it.