Neowin News Feed for: Webp

Windows 11 will soon support more desktop background formats

Taras Buria — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 20:48:01 +0000

Microsoft is working on letting you set more image formats as backgrounds in Windows 11, and you can test that now. Read more...

XL Converter 1.2.3

Razvan Serea — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 17:20:01 +0000

Easy-to-use image converter with fast parallel encoding. Supports JPEG XL, AVIF, JPEGLI, lossless JPEG transcoding, ExifTool, and more. Read more...

XL Converter 1.2.2

Razvan Serea — Sun, 01 Jun 2025 14:34:01 +0000

Easy-to-use image converter with fast parallel encoding. Supports JPEG XL, AVIF, JPEGLI, lossless JPEG transcoding, ExifTool, and more. Read more...

Convert JXL to PNG, JPEG, and more with XL Converter 1.2.1

Razvan Serea — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 16:00:02 +0000

Easy-to-use image converter with fast parallel encoding. Supports JPEG XL, AVIF, JPEGLI, lossless JPEG transcoding, ExifTool, and more. Read more...

After AVIF, senior Microsoft exec confirms WebP support on Windows 11 Photos app

Sayan Sen — Thu, 18 May 2023 06:42:01 +0000

Microsoft quietly added a major feature to its new Photos app on Windows 11. The software now supports the WebP image format, which is said to more efficient that older, more common formats. Read more...

Linux Lite 6.4 released with WebP support, runs on just 768 MB RAM

Paul Hill — Sat, 01 Apr 2023 15:18:01 +0000

Linux Lite 6.4, a lightweight distribution, has been released. It features WebP support in the Thunar file manager and ZTSD compression but it does ship with a slightly older Linux kernel. Read more...

LibreOffice 7.4 arrives with WebP image support and performance improvements

Paul Hill — Thu, 18 Aug 2022 12:56:01 +0000

LibreOffice 7.4 has been released to the public. It can be downloaded on Windows, macOS, and Linux. It now includes WebP image support and comes with better Microsoft Office compatibility. Read more...

Cloudflare Image Resizing adds support for AVIF images

Paul Hill — Sat, 03 Oct 2020 17:02:01 +0000

Cloudflare has added support for the AVIF image format to its Image Resizing service. AVIF is only supported by Opera and Chrome right now but brings big improvements to image compression. Read more...

Firefox 65 launches with new online privacy controls, plus support for WebP and AV1

Paul Hill — Wed, 30 Jan 2019 00:16:01 +0000

Mozilla has released the next version of its Firefox web browser. In Firefox 65, users can better control their online privacy and gain access to newly introduced support for WebP and the AV1 codec. Read more...

Google trying to promote adoption of WebP image format for websites

John Callaham — Mon, 24 Mar 2014 19:15:00 +0000

Google says that it is rolling out support of the WebP image format across its websites, including YouTube, claiming that it reduces file sizes as well as load time for web pages. Read more...