Chrome, Firefox and Edge are saving images in the WebP format, and that is not ideal for many users. They would prefer if this were done in other formats such as JPG or PNG, so what to do?

especially if you have a blog or like to save images you find online. It’s called WebP, a format that’s been around for a while but is now starting to be adopted more broadly by websites aroun ...

As part of its self-imposed mission to make the web faster, Google has rolled its own image format. It's called WebP, and it's based on open source technology. Google launched the initiative ...

A severe vulnerability has been found in libwebp, a code library used to render webp images, reports Stack Diary. Webp is a popular image format used by many sites on the Internet – but also by ...

WebP versus JPEG. Click the image to see the full size examples on Google's WebP comparison page. Image: Google[/caption] Want your website to load faster? Slim your images. According to the ...

In some cases, you may think you’re looking at your new wallpaper when you realize the image only saves a WebP file. Fortunately, an extension for Google Chrome can be added that will allow you ...

In the developer notes, Apple notes that it has added WebP image support for the first time in Safari. WebP is a newer image format developed by Google and announced in 2010. It provides lossy and ...

The vulnerability originates in the libwebp code library, which Google created in 2010 for rendering images in webp, a then-new format that resulted in files that were up to 26 percent smaller ...

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