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Re:Facebook tries Google's WebP image format; users squawk by wmf on Monday April 22, 2013 @11:09AM (#5589592)
Except Facebook officially does not want people to export anything from Facebook. The ability for browsers to save images was a "bug".
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Re:Facebook tries Google's WebP image format; users squawk by Total_Meltdown on Monday April 22, 2013 @11:13AM (#5589636)
They seem OK with downloading to me... http://i.imgur.com/wVZCFLm.png

Edit: And if it was a bug, they've taken their sweet time fixing it. I can still right click -> Save Image As.

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Re:Facebook tries Google's WebP image format; users squawk by jrockway on Monday April 22, 2013 @11:16AM (#5589657)
Indeed. If Facebook is trying to lock users in, a non-patent-encumbered format with a free BSD-licensed reference implementation seems like the wrong way to do it.
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