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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)

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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 8 months ago (1 children)

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 8 months ago (4 children)

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 8 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] MisterMoo@mastodon.online -3 points 8 months ago

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

[–] dragonarchitect@rubber.social 2 points 7 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!

[–] Hedgewizard@beige.party 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 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 8 months ago

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

[–] eruchitanda@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

Isn't ImageMagick available on Windows too?

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 8 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.

[–] Jencen@furry.engineer 1 points 7 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

[+] grue@lemmy.world -15 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Skill issue.

I'm a Linux user and didn't even notice, let alone care, when I downloaded images as webp because it works just fine with all my other software (Dolphin, Gwenview, GIMP, etc.). There is no problem with webp; who gives a shit?

[–] MisterMoo@mastodon.online 2 points 8 months ago (4 children)

@grue You don't need to identify yourself as a Linux user. The insulting remark at the top of your post and the tone of the rest of it makes it clear.

Ever been forced by your workplace to use a piece of software you'd prefer not to? For example, ever tried to share a webp image on MS Teams? You can't; you have to convert it first. Lots of household-name software rejects the format.

Hopefully the Firefox team needs to care about more than the needs of condescending Linux users.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

It's not Firefox's problem that MS Teams (or other "household name" software) sucks.

Edit: ITT: people getting mad at me for pointing out that they're misattributing the blame.

[–] MisterMoo@mastodon.online 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

@grue Another very productive reply. Great. Enjoy your perfectly cross-compatible software environment that somehow exists despite a lack of compatibility not being a "problem" for any software maker to care about.

[–] grue@lemmy.world -5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You mean I should enjoy my perfectly cross-compatible software environment that exists because the the people making it recognize their responsibility to support the latest standard, rather than acting like proprietary software makers by whining and demanding that everybody else cater to their old, broken shit?

Thanks, I will!

But by all means, continue wallowing in your self-inflicted misery instead if you want. Just don't get mad at me for not "productively" explaining how to solve your problem, because I have. You just don't want to hear it.

[–] MisterMoo@mastodon.online -3 points 8 months ago

@grue Stop replying now.

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[+] skilltheamps@feddit.de -6 points 8 months ago (2 children)

You using shitty software is not something somebody else would or should feel inclined to solve. Suggesting that everybody should suffer from not receiving the content they request from the webserver, but instead an arbitrary lossy compressed and therefore different picture for your individual comfort is just a self-centred, ignorant and narcissistic request. So go away and use edge, and then complain to Microsoft (whom you pay in contrast to mozilla+community!), that their shitware doesn't work.

[–] MisterMoo@mastodon.online -1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

@skilltheamps Weird, I could *swear* my post asked for "a setting" but I guess in your absurd black-or-white world that translates to "everybody should suffer."

[–] skilltheamps@feddit.de 3 points 8 months ago

Nono, you are demanding in a not nice tone from a open source community to implement some bloat workaround to fix some you-specific-issue with commercial software. You know how free and open source software works? Either you contribute something positive, or you color yourself glad you get to use something so great completely for free and stay silent. Bark at that commercial vendor that doesn't use the money from licenses + selling your soul to build something half decent! This upcoming demand-culture around things that others kindly share with wanting nothing in return pisses me off. Especially when it's not even something about the project, but carrying over unrelated cruft, instead of directing the demand to the entitiy it would be justified against.

Just build a browser extension that does the conversion. Or a script that watches a folder where you drag it into as an intermediary, and then it converts it automatically. And then share it for free, because you are a kind person! You might find a handful of people that like it. And then watch some asshat writing you a demand that "stop converting to jpeg, forever stop that! I need bitmaps for my gameboy! Just give me a SETTING where I can chooose and a nice dialog where I can pick the freaking color palette!"

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