Not a fan of images being saved as webp so I have been using extension for the last couple of years, recently all of the “save images as” extenisons are causing brave to completely shutdown, I am using windows 10 version 22H2 1945. 4894 and my brave is up to date
Version 1.70.117 Chromium: 129.0.6668.59 (Official Build) (64-bit)
I have reset Brave settings with no effect. Is anyone else experiencing this? Also, is there a fast way of saving images in other formats besides webp? I know of other methods such as changing the extension or using something to edit it but that involves extra steps that should not be necessary, I can use Edge and I have no issues saving images in other formats.
UPDATE: I am not sure if my issues is fixed, however, its seems to be partially fixed, the only change I made was a registry hack but I cannot confirm that it is the solution, the extensions are still causing a crash but now I am able to save an image as it’s default extension (png or jpg) at least on a few that I tried, I will keep testing and if the error still persist, I will update further.
I am not sure if registry hacks are permitted here and if you decide to try this, you do so at your own risk, messing with the registry can produce harmful results if you don’t know what you are doing and sometimes even if you do know what you are doing,
Try this if you have the same issue I had: Open regedit and do a registry backup, then type or copy and paste this… “HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\MIME\Database\Content Type\image/webp” without the quotes, Double-click on Extension in the right panel and change the extension from .webp to .png and restart your computer.
For some reason I did not notice the change right away, it seemed to take a few hours but that could just be my false perception. I notice now that when i click on a preview image in google the (right side image) I can now click on “save image as” and it will give the default image format, whether that be jpg or png, I am not seeing webp, also, if I use BingAI to create an image, the default download format was .JFIF, now I am able to save the image as .png, hope this works if you try it.
I also use Windows 10 and started having the exact same issues. To compare I tried the same extension using a different browser (Edge) and it worked fine, so there is definitely some kind of bug that exist between this specific extension and Brave Browser. The interim fix I used was to delete the extension and use a different type of Save File as Type extension. I found the “Save File as .PNG” to work fine.
I can change the extension also which is fine if you are downloading a couple images but becomes annoying with several. There needs to be a better way and there always was until recently.
It’s not just one extension that causes it, I tried at least 3 and they all make Brave crash instantly without any freeze, it closes instantly.
Another thing I just noticed is that if i download an image that has the webp extension, delete the extension and rename it to .jpg or .png, my photo viewers or editors won’t open them, it gives an error that “the file does not exist or is unreadable”
Does not work for me, Brave is crashing everytime, it will work with Edge though. There may have been a Microsoft update that did something, what version of Windows are you using?
This is actually happening with many extensions that download stuff.
SingleFile extension is another example.
Also, Tab Session Manager when you’re trying to export a session and “Media Harvest : twitter Media Downloader” when you’re trying to download something.
It was introduced with version 1.70.111 six days ago. No idea why this is happening and tbh why there aren’t more reports about this.
Thanks for adding the extra info, it’s good to know that it has to do with the brave update, hopefully more people will report it so developers will take it serious enough to fix it.
Happening on my end as well (Base Brave, Version 1.70.117), with different extensions on any site. Tried both “Convert WebP to JPG” as well as “SaveAs - save image as PNG/JPG/WebP” and both same result, also tried other extensions that just download images from sites (Like twitter) and same story. Browser hangs for about 2 seconds and afterwards it crashes.
I had an issue with the “absolute right click” extension causing certain apps not to work, when I resetted my brave browser and removed all my extensions, it worked again.
I tried the same for “save image as png” but this time nothing. Everytime I click an image and save as png, my whole browser just closes.
Seems this issues is also recent which gives me hope that it was probably an update. But I use this feature all the time. It worked when I use other browsers like google.
Hopefully this is fixed soon because I really do not want to switch to google since I need this extension.