Short answer: no. Chrome has no switch in Settings or in chrome://flags that stops pages from sending you WebP. What you can control is what happens after the image reaches your computer, and that is enough to end up with a normal JPG.
When Chrome asks a server for an image, it lists the formats it can display, WebP and AVIF included. The server, or the CDN in front of it, then decides what to send back. Many send WebP because the files are smaller and load faster. The browser only displays what arrives, and "Save image as" writes those same bytes to disk. That is why a picture whose address ends in .jpg can still save as .webp.
Some extensions edit that list of formats so WebP is no longer mentioned. On 15 November 2026 I requested the same image from five sites three times: with Chrome's normal list, with image/webp removed (what these extensions do), and with both image/webp and image/avif removed. Unsplash, IKEA and a Cloudinary demo image came back as AVIF the first two times and as JPEG only the third time. A Shopify store (Allbirds) sent WebP, then PNG as soon as WebP was gone. Nike sent the same PNG all three times. So removing WebP alone often swaps it for AVIF. Plenty of servers ignore the list entirely, and a download can be a separate request from the one that showed the image on screen, so the saved file may still be WebP. Treat it as an experiment, and remember it also makes the pages it works on load bigger files.
An extension can read the image you right-clicked, draw it, and save the result as JPG or PNG on your own computer. With PixLasso for Chrome you right-click a picture and pick Save image as JPG / PNG / WebP. The file gets a real .jpg extension, nothing is uploaded, and this part is free. The first time, it opens a tab asking for permission to read images from websites. AVIF images work the same way. Older articles suggest Save Image As Type for this; Google removed it from the Chrome Web Store in March 2026.
Right-click the image, choose "Open image in new tab", and look at the address. Image CDNs often put the format in a parameter such as fm=webp, format=webp or f_auto. Change it to jpg and reload. When the CDN supports it, you get a real JPEG straight from the source with no re-encoding on your side. When the URL has no such parameter, this option is out.
Save the WebP file, then open it in Paint on Windows or in Preview on a Mac and save or export it as JPEG. It takes a minute per file and needs no new software. For many files, ImageMagick does the same from the command line: magick input.webp output.jpg.
It works on anything you can see, but you get the image at the size it appears on screen, with whatever scaling the page applied, and the screenshot tool picks the format. Use it when nothing else is possible.
Converter websites handle WebP fine, but they work by uploading your file to someone else's server. That is fine for a meme and a bad idea for client work, ID photos or anything private.
Firefox lets you replace the list of image formats it sends. Type about:config in the address bar, accept the warning, search for image.http.accept and set it to image/jpeg,image/png,image/*;q=0.8,*/*;q=0.5. The default is empty, which means Firefox sends its built-in list starting with image/avif,image/webp. Clear the value to undo it.
This only helps on sites that choose the format from that list. On 5 November 2026 an IKEA product photo and an Unsplash photo both came back as AVIF with Firefox's normal list and as JPEG with the one above. A site that always sends WebP keeps sending WebP, and pages that did get smaller files will now load bigger ones. Chrome and Edge have no such setting.
Right-click conversion handles one image at a time. If you need every photo on a product page or a gallery, a bulk downloader that converts during the download saves you the repeat clicks. PixLasso saves up to 30 files per batch free as originals in one ZIP; converting the whole batch to JPG is part of Pro, a single US$9.99 payment. Transparent images get a white background when they become JPG, so pick PNG if you need the transparency.
If the WebP is already in your Downloads folder, you do not need the browser at all. Drag it into a Chrome tab to view it, then use option 3 to turn it into a JPG, or right-click it in that tab and use option 1.
The full walkthrough of each method, with the CDN parameters and command lines, is in How to save WebP images as JPG or PNG in Chrome and Edge.
Updated November 2026. Written by the developer of PixLasso, who mentions the extension where it helps, alongside free methods.