You Downloaded a .webp and Nothing Opens It. What Happened and 3 Ways Out

You see a product photo, right-click, "Save image as", and get image.webp . Your upload form rejects it, an older editor can't open it, and the person you sent it to asks what a WebP is. The website probably never "uploaded a WebP". Your browser asked for one. How you ended up with WebP When a browser requests an image, it sends an Accept header listing formats it understands, including…