Stop fighting with your PC just to set a wallpaper; Windows 11 is finally embracing WebP files natively.

Microsoft is also thought to be testing video backgrounds, but that's still missing from the latest preview build.

You can now open Settings > Personalization > Desktop Background, and choose any .webp image as the background.

Based on the benchmarks from 2012 by [Blobfolio] between JPEG XL, AVIF and WebP, it would seem that if Jpegli incorporates advancements from AVIF while maintaining compatibility with JPEG decoders out ...

There’s also a small but welcome personalization update. Windows 11 now supports .webp images as desktop backgrounds. You can ...

You may have noticed an online image format appearing in your browser lately, especially if you have a blog or like to save images you find online. It’s called WebP ...

Google is obsessed with speeding up the Web, and the company hopes sprucing up its image format will help. It's got a lot of convincing to do, though. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to ...

Chrome, Firefox and Edge are saving images in the WebP format, and that is not ideal for many users. They would prefer if this were done in other formats such as JPG or PNG, so what to do? Well, we ...

Anyone trying to save images from websites these days is increasingly stumbling across the new WebP image format. But what is it actually? WebP was developed by Google to replace the outdated JPG, PNG ...

The WebP image format developed by Google for the past eight years has found a home this week in Microsoft's Edge browser, and will also be added in Firefox next year. WebP is a lossy and lossless ...