Summary : This guide shows you how to view and convert WebP images to JPEG or PNG format in Linux.
What is WebP?
More than a decade has passed since Google introduced the WebP file format for images. Google claims that WebP offers both lossy and lossless compression, with WebP compressed file sizes approximately 25% smaller than JPEG compression.
Slowly, WebP became more and more popular. The CDN will automatically convert PNG files to WebP to a smaller size server image. That’s why when you download images from a website, they are downloaded in .wep format.
The problem is the GNOME image viewer, the default image viewer on the mayn distribution does not support this format.
If you try to open …
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