Is there a way to disable Safari Webp image downloads in Big Sur?

[Mazda 3s]

This is BY FAR the most annoying change for me with Big Sur and the new Safari. It by default downloads webp versions of images whenever possible, which for my workflow means that I have to convert every single image I download or come across into jpg using my image editing program.

Is there ANY WAY to disable this blasted "feature"? I don't really want to hear "suck it up, change the way you work". I'm just asking for a solution if possible

 

[mikzn]

I tried downloading a few images in BS and the images I downloaded were .jpg or .jpeg

does it do the same thing in Firefox?

 

[Eminemdrdre00]

A lot of websites use webp now instead of jpg for images because they are more efficient. It's annoying but there's no way to disable Safari's support of webp that I know of.

What we really need is for Preview to support webp. Then this wouldn't be much of an issue.

 

[Ritsuka]

Preview can display webp, but can't export it.

 

[silentj]

Sites will automatically send webp images to Safari now as Safari sends "image/webp" in it's "Accepts" header (as Chrome/Firefox do)

To stop that you'll need to override the headers that Safari sends.

It's easy to do in chrome/firefox with a simple extension, but I don't see an enquivalent for Safari

 

[MacGizmo]

This is BY FAR the most annoying change for me with Big Sur and the new Safari. It by default downloads webp versions of images whenever possible, which for my workflow means that I have to convert every single image I download or come across into jpg using my image editing program.

Is there ANY WAY to disable this blasted "feature"? I don't really want to hear "suck it up, change the way you work". I'm just asking for a solution if possible

As already stated by someone above, this isn't a Safari or Big Sur thing, it's a website thing. More and more sites are using WebP images and there's almost nothing we can do about it.

Unfortunately, Apple all but killed the plugin market for Safari when they started forcing devs to build stand-alone apps to add functionality to Safari. This forced devs to place apps in the app store... and most of them are no longer free.

 

[MacGizmo]

As a side note, there is a plugin for Photoshop that allows opening/saving/exporting as WebP.

 

[afallnstar]

Better yet, you can setup a simple Automator script to convert images from webp to your preferred format. I've got it setup to do this for webp and heic.

 

[Mazda 3s]

As a side note, there is a plugin for Photoshop that allows opening/saving/exporting as WebP.

I use Pixelmator Pro, so I’ve had the support for a while. It’s just the extra step of converting all the images is a pain in the ass.

 

[grandeabc]

As a side note, there is a plugin for Photoshop that allows opening/saving/exporting as WebP.

Thank you for you hint! Now in 2024, worked (photoshop 2020) on MacOS Sequoia.