Okay, so how do we get rid of WebP?
Absolutely awful news for all artists!
TLDR: webp has been enabled as the default way to display gifs within web pages on not only chrome, but now firefox as well. this affects everything including the tumblr dashboard. that means your beautiful gifs will display improperly and look hideous on almost everyone’s browsers by default. this can also affect the upload process on tumblr (gifs permanently converting to webp). pixel/retro gifs are especially ruined by this.
SOOOOO I went through hours of hell trying to figure out why Tumblr was converting my gifs into a hideous blurry WebP. Well it turns out that Google is spreading it’s diseased buggy webm/webp compression format as a sort of new “standard” and Firefox has stupidly enabled it as the default with it’s most recent update. And it's not only displaying all gifs as ugly webp (have fun saving them in HD), but actually UPLOADING them as webp files as well.
GRRRRRRRRRRRR.
So, how do we restore all the file types automatically when trying to download images/gifs/etc. from the net? Anybody?
Update: How to fix images saving as .webp (sorta)
Go on Firefox address bar and type in about:config
about:config
and search for: image.webp.enabled on its search bar and toggle that off so the value is now false
then search for image.http.accept. and double-click on it and change its value from image/webp,*/* to just */*
then restart Firefox,
it should now only show .jpg or .png when saving images. No more webp.
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This kinda worked, but now it won’t display ANY image that’s a webp, so it’s a real problem when you’re trying to save an image or three from a fandom wiki. On the other hand, it DOES effectively allow me to finally save as PNG. I appreciate that much.
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TLDR: webp has been enabled as the default way to display gifs within web pages on not only chrome, but now firefox as well. this affects everything including the tumblr dashboard. that means your beautiful gifs will display improperly and look hideous on almost everyone’s browsers by default. this can also affect the upload process on tumblr (gifs permanently converting to webp). pixel/retro gifs are especially ruined by this.
SOOOOO I went through hours of hell trying to figure out why Tumblr was converting my gifs into a hideous blurry WebP. Well it turns out that Google is spreading it’s diseased buggy webm/webp compression format as a sort of new “standard” and Firefox has stupidly enabled it as the default with it’s most recent update. And it's not only displaying all gifs as ugly webp (have fun saving them in HD), but actually UPLOADING them as webp files as well.
GRRRRRRRRRRRR.
So, how do we restore all the file types automatically when trying to download images/gifs/etc. from the net? Anybody?
Update: How to fix images saving as .webp (sorta)
Go on Firefox address bar and type in about:config
about:config
and search for: image.webp.enabled on its search bar and toggle that off so the value is now false
then search for image.http.accept. and double-click on it and change its value from image/webp,*/* to just */*
then restart Firefox,
it should now only show .jpg or .png when saving images. No more webp.
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This kinda worked, but now it won’t display ANY image that’s a webp, so it’s a real problem when you’re trying to save an image or three from a fandom wiki. On the other hand, it DOES effectively allow me to finally save as PNG. I appreciate that much.
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