Edge runs on the same engine as Chrome, so it has the same habit: you save a product photo or a picture from a news site and Windows shows a .webp file. Older photo editors, print shops and some upload forms refuse it. Below are the fixes that suit an Edge and Windows setup, starting with the quickest.
Edge tells every website which image formats it can show, and WebP is on that list. Sites use that to send the smaller WebP version. Edge has no setting to remove WebP from the list, so the format is decided before the picture reaches you. Each fix below either asks the site for a different file or converts the one you got.
This is the fastest if you do it often. Install PixLasso from Edge Add-ons, then right-click any picture on a page. The menu gets a Save image as JPG / PNG / WebP entry. Pick JPG and Edge saves a file ending in .jpg (not .jfif). The conversion runs inside your browser, the image never goes to a server, and the right-click feature is free. On first use it asks, in a new tab, for permission to read images from the sites you visit.
No install needed. Right-click the picture in Edge and choose "Copy image". Open Paint, press Ctrl+V, then use File → Save as → JPEG picture. Paint only gets the pixels from the clipboard, so the WebP question never comes up. If the pasted image is bigger than the canvas, Paint asks to enlarge it; say yes. This works one picture at a time and does not keep transparency.
If you already saved the file, open it in Paint (current Windows versions open WebP directly) and save it as JPEG. On a Mac, Preview does the same through File → Export.
Right-click the image and choose "Open image in new tab". If the address contains something like format=webp or fm=webp, replace webp with jpg and press Enter. Image CDNs that support it return a real JPEG. Many sites have no such parameter, and then this fix does nothing.
Online converters work, but they upload your image to a third-party server first. Screenshots work too, at the size the picture is shown on screen rather than its real size. Both are fine for a throwaway image and poor for anything you care about.
For a full gallery or every product photo on a page, click the PixLasso icon in the Edge toolbar instead. It collects the full-size images, and you download them as one ZIP; the free version handles 30 files per batch. Converting the whole batch to JPG while it downloads is a Pro feature, US$9.99 paid once.
The same tool is on the Chrome Web Store if you also use Chrome. For more detail on CDN parameters and command-line conversion, see How to save WebP images as JPG or PNG in Chrome and Edge.
Updated October 2026. Written by the developer of PixLasso, who mentions the extension where it helps, alongside free methods.