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I've got my Google Chrome profile synced between my windows 10 machine and my MacOS 12.4 machine.

When I save a JPG formatted image from the internet, be it from a photo editing app, exporting from Figma, saving from Google SERPs, even if the extension of the image is .jpg on MacOS it always renames the extension to .jpeg rather than .jpg

I appreciate to many folk this makes no difference, but I'm not asking that, I have plenty of reasons to want to keep the original extension.

This only happens on the MacOS version of the Chrome profile.

When I use Edge/Firefox on MacOS it saves it correctly as .jpg

So it seems to be something related to MacOS + Chrome that's doing this.

I've been Googling loads but finding a whole lot of junk online and nothing helpful.

Does anybody else know how to change this behaviour?

Thanks

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  • What specifically have you tried already from the things you found?
    – nohillside ♦
    Commented Jun 20, 2022 at 10:54
  • Nothing because none of the results have been relevant lol
    – owenmelbz
    Commented Jun 24, 2022 at 11:34
  • Do you have any extensions in Chrome, does the problem also occur with all of them disabled? If you create a new user account in your Mac and try it there, does it happen as well?
    – nohillside ♦
    Commented Jun 24, 2022 at 13:00
  • Doesn't look like it, tried incognito and a guest profile without extensions and it still does it.
    – owenmelbz
    Commented Jul 2, 2022 at 10:05
  • Can you try with a new macOS user account? It may not be chrome profile related.
    – nohillside ♦
    Commented Jul 2, 2022 at 13:32

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This is most likely a Finder setting.

In Finder, from the 'Finder' top menu drop down menu (whew), select 'Preferences', select the 'Advanced' tab and then tick to enable 'Show all filename extensions'.

Now, in your save-as dialog, the original filename and extension will auto fill in the dialog allowing you to simply click save and retain .jpg for example.

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  • I tried methods provided by @Philip Ingram, and the files being saved became ".jpg". So it seems like a "problem" with Chrome itself, when not knowing the extension you want to save, it saves image files to ".jpeg" format.
    – Chandler.B
    Commented Oct 27, 2022 at 10:49
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Use a Chrome extension or rename file manually

There are two ways I've found so far working for me.

1st way : Use Save Image As Type Chrome extension. When you right click on an image, it should propose you an option "Save image as JPG/PNG/WebP", select "JPG" when the menu appears and it should save the file as .jpg and not as .jpeg.

2nd way : Rename the file manually. When you have downloaded an image, go to Finder, find the image you've just downloaded and modify the file extension to .jpg. I am aware this is really tiresome but that's why I proposed the first solution which I find way more convenient.

Good luck! :)

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