Saving images. Webp? Why?

[steaua10]

steaua10 last edited by

In the recent Opera versions, now when you try to "Save image as" Opera is forcing you to save the image in .webp format. I've tried to save a JPG-type image (with .jpg in URL), and during the saving process changing manually the extension from .webp to .jpg, and then .jpeg, and it didn't worked, the file was corrupt. With another image, a PNG, it worked changing the extension, but with a JPG it didn't.
Why Opera creates such problems? Keep being simple pls. Nobody needs that .webp format.

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @steaua10 last edited by

@steaua10 The site is using that format, that's why Opera is trying to save the images using webp.

[sgunhouse]

sgunhouse Moderator Volunteer last edited by

A page can have any extension at all in the URL (or none), that does not tell you what the file type is.

[adamsmith2309]

adamsmith2309 last edited by

Hi there,
Go to the opera setting and then in the settings>cookies and site data and click on preference in the drop-down list to give you an extension preference. You need to block .webp permission from the setting for that specific site. Also if the image is saved as PNG you can try to save as an option and save it in JPEG extension easily.

[burnout426]

burnout426 Volunteer last edited by

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/save-image-as-type/gabfmnliflodkdafenbcpjdlppllnemd might help with this.

[burnout426]

burnout426 Volunteer last edited by burnout426

You could also modify Opera's Accept header that it sends with https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/modify-header-value-http/cbdibdfhahmknbkkojljfncpnhmacdek.

You'd add a new rule in options:

• Set the URL field value to * to cover all sites (set it to the site you want).
• Check the "Modify" box.
• In the Header Name field, enter Accept
• In the Header Value field, put text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/avif,image/apng,*/*;q=0.8,application/signed-exchange;v=b3;q=0.9
• Click the + to add the rule.

What that does is remove image/webp from Opera's original of:

text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/avif,image/webp,image/apng,*/*;q=0.8,application/signed-exchange;v=b3;q=0.9

so that the site doesn't think Opera supports webp. Sites can choose to ignore it, but this method has worked for some problem sites in the past.