Show HN: A Safari extension to accelerate animated WebP imageshttps://github.com/IliaMManolov/safari-animated-webp-extension
Hi HN! The other day I had to do some work with a lot of large animated WebP files on my Macbook running Safari and noticed that it handles them very poorly. They load slowly and it seems like they're constantly being decoded, also with really poor performance. Here's a website with similar images to what I was working with: https://colinbendell.github.io/webperf/animated-gif-decode/w... On that website, my M1 Macbook Air decodes the boat and smoke images at fewer than 5FPS, and the brown underwater office one has a constant stutter. The performance on my iPhone 15 Pro is very similar with th…