Images are saved as .webp instead of original format (JPG, JPEG, PNG, etc.)

sgunhouse

WebP is a different format from JPEG. When Opera still had Turbo (a compressing proxy they offered to save bandwidth on slow or metered connections) one thing it did was convert all JPEG images to WebP as it tends to offer better compression. So ... are you using some sort of compressing proxy?

Kepke

Nothing like that. I use the newest Vivaldi Verison with Privacy Badger, uBlock, DoNotTrack, some YT and Twitch Extensions, AdGuard Desktop and NordVPN. I've already tried dissabling everything and doing a fresh profile. No dif.

I got a temporary solution now. Just gonna drag and drop pics in to my JDownloader2 and when i feel like it, just DL all at once.

sgunhouse

Of course if you're using Google image search the previews will all be WebP. If you click to see the original image it'll be whatever format it was. And check if the ones you renamed are really now JPEG or still really WebP.

greybeard

@iAN-CooG Quite Right but there is another problem...
No matter what you convert it to you cannot make a better image. If your source is a Webp image, it is at best poor quality. As the say:

"You can't make a silk purse from a sow's ear."

So if you need or want to provide High Quality images stick with the jp*g or png formats.
Gather the filenames of the Webp files and re-source the original to replace the downlad/upload.

iAN CooG

@greybeard said in Windows: Images save as .webp and i'd like it to stop (not a vivaldi exclusive issue):

High Quality images stick with the jp*g

If we want to split the hair in 4, High Quality and JPG clash by definition as it's still a lossy compression
There are many cases where converting a badly compressed jpg to webp made it smoother by slightly removing JPG artefacts.
Sure, once any losslessly compressed image gets converted to any lossy compressed format, there is no turning back to "high quality" but only worsening it even more.
I was only pointing out that changing extension to a webp, it's still a webp, but now with wrong extension. You have to convert to jpg to have an actual jpg.

Pesala

WebP is a useful format for displaying large photos on the web. I use them on my website, but offer a low resolution JPG image as the default. Users can click to view the high resolution WebP version.

Original 4,500 x 9,105 pixel PNG = 53.1 Mbytes
JPG version (50% quality/compression) = 1.96 Mbytes
WebP version (50% quality = 1.3 Mbytes)

JPG Detail (Lossless Screenshot)

WebP Detail (Lossless Screenshot)

Kepke

Just as a reminder, i don't care if the file is .jpg, .png or .jpeg. All i want is to have the image i saw and draged in to a folder/desktop, whatever quality it was.

@Gwen-Dragon said in Windows: Images save as .webp and i'd like it to stop (not a vivaldi exclusive issue):

@Kepke said in Images save as .webp and i'd like it to stop (not a vivaldi exclusive issue):

But now i'm noticing more and more instances of that happening and sometimes even RMB>Save will save it as .webp if i don't add a .jpg/ect manually to the filename.

Something on your Windows installation is broken.
Only for a test: what happens if you create a new Windows user, log in and save a image in Vivaldi, Brave or Firefox?

I just tested it. It happens with the exact same pictures again. Oddly enough, the page sthat troubled me before now have "normal" formats again. Possible that they use webp during high traffic times?

Pesala

@Kepke I doubt if any website would serve different images depending on the site traffic. If you save the image and it has a *.webp format, chances are that it is an WebP image. Open it in IrfanView. If the extension is incorrect, it will tell you and offer to fix it.

A link to the page might help us to confirm the true format of the images.

Kepke

@Pesala said in Windows: Images save as .webp and i'd like it to stop (not a vivaldi exclusive issue):

@Kepke I doubt if any website would serve different images depending on the site traffic. If you save the image and it has a *.webp format, chances are that it is an WebP image. Open it in IrfanView. If the extension is incorrect, it will tell you and offer to fix it.

A link to the page might help us to confirm the true format of the images.

With this picture/thread on reddit i have this .webp thing consistently. Thread and Picture

As for using IrfanView, i'd like to avoid extra work if i can help it.

Pesala

@Kepke I suggested IrfanView to diagnose the image type.

The image is a JPG image, and downloads with a *.jpg extension.

Kepke

@Gwen-Dragon
That was already suggested once and i've done it. I've now checked once more and it still shows .jpg as value. I have linked a picture that always saves as .webp further up there, can you try drag&dropping it on your desktop and see what happens?

@Pesala said in Windows: Images save as .webp and i'd like it to stop (not a vivaldi exclusive issue):

@Kepke I suggested IrfanView to diagnose the image type.

The image is a JPG image, and downloads with a *.jpg extension.

That's way to much work to get a picture...

Pesala

@Kepke said in Windows: Images save as .webp and i'd like it to stop (not a vivaldi exclusive issue):

That's way too much work to get a picture...

What I am trying to do is diagnose why you are not getting the expected results. I am not suggesting that you should use IrfanView to fix the file type. As I said, the file is a JPG already. There should be nothing to do but download it.

Something on your Windows installation is broken.

Kepke

@Pesala said in Windows: Images save as .webp and i'd like it to stop (not a vivaldi exclusive issue):

@Kepke said in Windows: Images save as .webp and i'd like it to stop (not a vivaldi exclusive issue):

That's way too much work to get a picture...

What I am trying to do is diagnose why you are not getting the expected results. I am not suggesting that you should use IrfanView to fix the file type. As I said, the file is a JPG already. There should be nothing to do but download it.

Something on your Windows installation is broken.

Ah ok, i apologize. I did not understand your intention. I installed IrfanView and got the "needed" webp.dll plugin it asked for.

It did not give me a error after the first time asking for the plugin.

Properties

For whatever reason, the format changes during drag and drop. I don't know if i mentioned it, but in the explorer the file isn't a ".webp" but a "Vivaldi HTML Document".

i_ri

Hello Kepke , Yo . How are you doing?
properties
possible to see a preview text/html. A preview webp.

.The image is jpg.

Look at image size for compare; the dimension x,y size not the Kb. differ for preview.

i not drag and drop anything. [ webp by go is quick and good quality. as advertised. opinion.]

LonM

@Kepke said in Windows: Images save as .webp and i'd like it to stop (not a vivaldi exclusive issue):

I don't know if i mentioned it, but in the explorer the file isn't a ".webp" but a "Vivaldi HTML Document".

This is a long standing known bug. Any file type associated with vivaldi is listed as html. If you enable file extensions in Windows explorer you can see that it's just a visual bug.

Kepke

So it all just depends on the host if drag and drop will "work"?

Kepke

Oke, i always assumed drag&drop was the same as RMB+Save As.

Do we have a shortcut in vivaldi that would allow me to click on any picture and save it without the windows prompt popping up?

Pesala

@Kepke Not yet. We are still waiting for Ctrl+Click on Images to Save Them.

sgunhouse

We've seen that Google image search seems to use webP a lot; if using Google always click the link to load the original.

EspinozaEric

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