How to view `webp` files without using browser?

Question

Does anyone know if there's a codec or app to let me view .webp files without using a browser?

What do you mean? When I double click on a webp file, it doesn't open in my browser but rather opens up in GIMP, where it loads fine — Daniel T, Mar 04 '24 at 01:46
Does this answer your question? Cannot open 90% of recently saved images (webp format) — karel, Mar 04 '24 at 17:48

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 04 '24 at 01:42

According to this thread, you can add native support to the default Ubuntu image viewer via the WebP GDK Pixbuf Loader library:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:krifa75/eog-ordissimo
sudo apt update
sudo apt install webp-pixbuf-loader

An alternative suggestion is gThumb:

sudo apt install gthumb

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