WebP in Chrome (Forcing Users into this mess)
Reported by
bustyasi...@gmail.com,
Dec 24 2017
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Issue descriptionUserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/65.0.3302.0 Safari/537.36 Steps to reproduce the problem: This has to be one of the most annoying things about Google Canary! I try to explain the problem: I have a website and an image is: "example.png" when I click the right mouse button and try to save the image Google Canary gives me only one option which is to save the image as "WebP". The trouble is I really hate WebP, the quality of WebP is not great and there are many better images types the Google Chrome Team should really look into which give better compression. For example, FLIP, BPG, the list goes on and on,... See this really good youtube at how bad WebP is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7vXJbLhTyI Ok back to the problem: So I try to save the image and Google Canary only let's me have one option which is WebP and if I try to rename the file when saving to example.png the saved image does not work. I really want to be able to save images at least in these formats: .webp .png .jpg .gif .bmp Then you could add extra good ones like: FLIP, BNP, APNG etc,.. What is the expected behavior? I want to save an image the same format as it's original image file type and not be forced into WebP. What went wrong? This issue has been bothering me for months, the only solution I find is to load the website in Firefox which doesn't force users into WebP. Just remember this also: https://www.caniuse.com/#search=webp WebP is mostly used by Chome and no one else! Did this work before? N/A Chrome version: 65.0.3302.0 Channel: n/a OS Version: 6.1 (Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2) Flash Version: Last thing: I want to wish all the people in the Google Chrome a wonderful Xmas and thank you for all the help you guys have given me over the years and I have learned so much in developing websites and new api's.
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Dec 24 2017
p.s. My suggest is having a drop down menu and the user can select any of these common file types. Currently drop down menu only says "WebP" and nothing else for .png image downloading!
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Dec 25 2017
Can you post the site URL that exhibits the problem? 1. Chrome does not force WebP. If the image is really PNG it'll be saved as PNG. The site server must be detecting Chrome and serving WebP instead. You can install an extension to modify HTTP request headers or set a different UserAgent string e.g. Firefox just for this site. 2. Chrome is not an image converter and offers to save only the actual format of the image. I agree though, offering to convert WebP to PNG or JPG when saving would make sense because WebP support is limited to Chrome. Meanwhile, there are extensions and online converters. For example, https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/save-image-as-jpeg-png-we/cagjgpolpdodlfifipjlgechhcljmchm 3. The youtube link you've posted shows a contrived unrealistic case of progressively resaving the image thousands of times. In real world use cases, however, FLIF, BGP, and mozJPEG (in advanced mode, which is the only really useful one) are much slower to encode compared to WebP. Some like FLIF are even slower to decode. WebP, on the other hand, has already proven itself as a JPG/PNG replacement over the years it's used on the web.
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Dec 25 2017
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Dec 26 2017
@Comment 3 thanks for your comment very interesting read. Will have a look at that extension. Have create a YouTube video screenshot of the issue, see for yourself what Google Canary is doing. Youtube Video: https://youtu.be/b2c3ptHwbIg
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Dec 27 2017
Unable to reproduce the issue on Win-7 using latest canary #65.0.3305.0. Attached a screenshot for reference. Observed that on right clicking the image file got saved in .png format and not in .webp format. bustyasianescorts2@ - Could you please check the screen shot and please let us know if anything missed from our side. Also please provide a sample url to test the issue from TE-end. Thanks...!!
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Dec 27 2017
Hi this problem seems to happen on and off, here is the URL I did for the test in the youtube video: https://geekflare.com/cloud-vps-hosting-china/ Let me know if you can reproduce this error / issue?
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Dec 27 2017
Thank you for providing more feedback. Adding requester "krajshree@chromium.org" to the cc list and removing "Needs-Feedback" label. For more details visit https://www.chromium.org/issue-tracking/autotriage - Your friendly Sheriffbot
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Dec 28 2017
bustyasianescorts2@ Thanks for the feedback. Able to reproduce this issue on Windows 10,Ubuntu 14.04 and Mac OS 10.12.6 using the latest Canary 65.0.3306.0 and Stable 63.0.3239.108 as per comment #7. On navigating to the page https://geekflare.com/cloud-vps-hosting-china/ -> Right-clicked on image and selected 'Save Image as' option, can observe that only WEBP file format is shown in the drop down list. This behavior is seen from M50 Chrome builds. As this is a Feature request, marking this as 'Untriaged' for further updates from Dev. Thanks...
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Dec 28 2017
I have confirmed that the webp conversion is happening server-side, and is not under the control of Chrome. One of the lines in the response header is this: cf-polished:origFmt=png, origSize=15816 Note the "origFmt" part. |
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