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When an image loads up and I try to save it, Edge forces me to save it as WEBP (and after the new update, as AVIF), and I absolutely 100% DO NOT WANT that.
I want to save GIF as GIF, JPG as JPG, and PNG as PNG, etc, and I DON'T want an addon in order to do that because they should already do that BY DEFAULT.
Where can I change the configuration in Edge or the registry to disable forced WEBP and AVIF saving?
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No, they're GIF, JPG, and PNG, but when I try to save, I get WEBP and AVIF instead. Your reply is not helpful and does not address the issue.
Yes it does, I run my own web site and have been saving photos for years on my website. All those photos now download as WEBP extension.
I can log into MY website see they are all jpg extensions. When I go to download those images, they get downloaded as a WEBP.
They are all JPG extension.
Edge in windows 11 is not giving my the option to save them as a JPEG or JPG when I download them.
I have only started using Edge over the past week. This morning, I tried to download images I wanted to save from The Atlantic's pictures of the week. It is something that I have done using Firefox in the past.
For the time ever, it was only allowing me to download as AVIF (a format I've barely heard of). It bothered me only because when I went to open it up, I couldn't do it in my usual IRFAN viewer. (I could using GIMP)
So I did a search for the question, and found this conversation.
After reading your post, I opened up Firefox, found the exact same picture I had just downloaded as an AVIF, and it automatically chose JPG. AVIF isn't even a choice.
That suggests to me that Edge is choosing the format.
Went to download some images off my old webpage and those images should all be JPG, Windows 11 Edge will only let me download them as WEBP. Something is very fishy with this forcing a format that I now for a fact I never loaded them into my website as or saved those photos as.
Thank you for the unasked for advice, but I actually have just switched from Firefox to Edge.
It sounds to me like you're trying really hard not to agree with me while agreeing with me. All you're now saying is that a Chromium based browser exports images as AVIF, and a non-Chromium browser renders them as WebP or JPEG. Even if you don't use the word "forced" it's basically acting differently. And your point that any browser downloads an image based on its original format is moot. I can't verify what the original format these images were, but after some 35 years of working in the graphic arts field, I highly doubt the original format is something as arcane as AVIF. Not impossible, but improbable. WebP or JPEG is much much much more common.
Anyway, my solution is simpler. Instead of doing a "Save as" I'll choose "Copy image" paste that into IRFAN and save.