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Saving images from Google Chrome

  • 25-03-2023 8:59pm
    #1
    Brid Hegarty
    Registered Users Posts: 1,244 ✭✭✭


    How come images sometimes save like in the second image instead of as in first image?

    The former way causes it to open within the web browser. I've never remembered this happening until a few years ago. It can get quite annoying, as to get around it, you have to screen shoot the image and use paint cut it out and then save it normally from there.

    thread1.png
    thread2.png

    Thank you



Comments

  • #2
    yufettodes
    Registered Users Posts: 34 ✭yufettodes


    Hello Brid.

    A .webp is a proprietary image format from Google.

    It will be made deprecated and obsolete in the near future, according to Google.

    If you open any image (e.g. .webp, .tiff, .gif, .png, .jpeg, etc) in any Web browser, you can then right-click the image and save it to any folder or to the desktop on Windows 10.



  • #3
    yufettodes
    Registered Users Posts: 34 ✭yufettodes


    Basically, a .webp can be viewed in Web browsers only, but not at all in Microsoft Paint or Windows Photo Viewer.



  • #4
    FrancieBrady
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 69,422 ✭✭✭✭FrancieBrady


    There are online converters that will turn them into jpegs or I mostly use the Snipping tool if I am not fussed about quality too much.



  • #5
    smuggler.ie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,153 ✭✭✭smuggler.ie


    Not just browser, some applications still can open .webp. VLC player can.

    image.png


    history of boards 2021




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