I don’t know what a .webp file is but I don’t like it. They’re like a filthy prank version of the image/gif you’re looking for. They make you jump through all these hoops to find the original versions of the files that you can actually do anything with.
Edit: honestly I assumed it had something to do with Google protecting themselves from image piracy shit
I don’t know what they are other than a file format; but I also don’t know what everyone’s problem with them is. They open in every viewer or editor I’ve used just fine so you can convert them by just saving as a new format if you’re trying to reupload them somewhere.
My gripe with them is that MacOS Finder won’t generate thumbnail previews of them and just displays a generic image icon. You’re free to say “that’s dumb, fuck Apple,” but I hope it illustrates a widespread example of how they’re aren’t as easy to deal with as JPGs and PNGs.
This plugin will fix the thumbnails in Finder
Couldn’t you use a file manager that sucks less?
Yeah sure let me switch computing platforms for this one file format… just one sec…
The seems like there is a problem with your platform if you can’t easily switch to a reasonable file explorer.
Don’t they make better file managers for Mac hasn’t finder been kind of a joke for like 20 years now