Chrome, Firefox and other browsers affected by critical WebP vulnerability

RanchOnPancakes , 9 months ago

oh no, guess we need to get rid of webp forever. Dang it.

yoz , 9 months ago

Hope that trash google takes itself out .

Kyoyeou , 9 months ago

May I Ask why people don't like webp? I don't know the reason? To my eyes now it is a more ecological way of having pictures because of their lower weight?

Gawdl3y , 9 months ago

It's a better format than JPEG, GIF, or PNG, while doing the jobs of all of those, but better (in most cases), and is an open format. It also has wide compatibility nowadays. The only major downside is a lot of social media services don't even think about it being a potential format due to a lack of awareness/wide usage, leading to a degraded experience when someone shares a WebP somewhere (lack of auto-embedding as an example). I suspect this is why it gets a lot of hate here, which is unfortunate because it's not at all the fault of the format.

AVIF (based on AV1) is the up-and-coming format that beats WebP in most cases now, but support isn't quite there yet (mostly due to Apple), and it has the same problems for social media as WebP. However, it doesn't have any true lossless mode AFAIK. HEIF (based on HEVC) is also good, but is heavily patent-encumbered and not as open. JPEG-XL is dope and potentially even better in some aspects, but has very poor support across the board.

ultratiem , 9 months ago

Proprietary formats are the bane of humanity. No one company, doesn’t matter, should have control over a file format. They should all be free and universally interoperable. A PSD, for example, should present and store data the same way if used on Photoshop or Pixelmator.

Companies are not your friends.

Gawdl3y , 9 months ago

WebP is not proprietary. It's an open format, is not patent-encumbered, and its reference implementation/libraries are open-source. It is driven mostly by Google, similar to Chromium.

ultratiem , 9 months ago

They took the open source WebKit to develop Chrome and Chromium.

How did that turn out?

Google wants to own images. Doesn’t matter if they made the licensing whatever. They make webp. They have a personal vested interest in control.

You trust Google???

abhibeckert , 9 months ago

They took the open source WebKit to develop Chrome and Chromium.

How did that turn out?

Perfectly? Web browsers are way better now than they ever have been.

Google wants to own images. Doesn’t matter if they made the licensing whatever. They make webp. They have a personal vested interest in control.

WebP is a little better than PNG/JPEG and way better than GIF. That's all that really matters.

You trust Google???

Hell no. I reluctantly watch a bit of content that's exclusively available on YouTube. Don't use anything else of theirs and I'd drop YouTube in a heartbeat if I could find that content elsewhere.