.webp problem

Petercat

I just got an ultra compact computer for the internet, using Firefox.
A while back in these forums, someone told how to get into the guts of Firefox to have
it display .webp images as .jpeg for downloading, but I can't find it now.
Does anyone here know how to do that?
I have xnconvert, but it was easier to download them as .jpeg images so that I wouldn't
have to convert them for use in my DAZ thumbnails folder.
Thank you.
 

Ascania

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/dont-accept-webp/?utm_source=addons.mozilla.org&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=search

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/don-t-accept-webp/?utm_source=addons.mozilla.org&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=search

SofaCitizen

Not sure it is relevant to those addons, but apparently if you disable webp then most of the thumbnails in Youtube will be grey blobs. I coincidentally found that out today.

Petercat

Ascania said:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/dont-accept-webp/?utm_source=addons.mozilla.org&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=search

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/don-t-accept-webp/?utm_source=addons.mozilla.org&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=search

Thanks. That seems to have done it!

Ascania

SofaCitizen said:

Not sure it is relevant to those addons, but apparently if you disable webp then most of the thumbnails in Youtube will be grey blobs. I coincidentally found that out today.

I have webp disabled. The thumbnails aren't grey blobs. Something happens on your end that keeps the Youtube script from loading thumbnails. Could be some script is blocking, could be some timeout.

SofaCitizen

Ascania said:

I have webp disabled. The thumbnails aren't grey blobs. Something happens on your end that keeps the Youtube script from loading thumbnails. Could be some script is blocking, could be some timeout.

In my case webp was disabled via the image.webp.enabled setting in about:config, switching that back on fixed it. Can't remember why I disabled it in the past but probably had a reason of some kind. I hadn't noticed for a while since I usually use my TV for watching Youtube. It could be that the addons posted above do a better job of triggering a fallback to JPG.