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Re:WebP is such a goated format by bscphil on Wednesday April 13, 2022 @01:11AM (#31011407)
> firefox converts images to webp by default

No it doesn't. What are you referring to?

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Re:WebP is such a goated format by exmadscientist on Wednesday April 13, 2022 @01:12AM (#31011412)
It doesn't convert them, but when it makes an additional request to download the file, the server might (depending on MIME hell, etc.) send back a different format. This is real and annoying.
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