Animated WebP support

any timeline on support for animated WebP files ?

I asked about this functionality many moons ago, and Leo tends to respond with a very ambiguous answer but generally says that they aren't really interested in devoting manpower on it at present (something to that general effect) It appears to be a significant pain in the arse for some reason and the juice aint worth the squeeze for the time being.

WebP (AFIK) was implemented in 2004 to replace gif ( more colours, true alpha transparency instead of binary transparency, etc)

Feature request
Please put in some support for animated WebP.

*atm - i am having to drag & drop them into MS Edge to view them

Found a solution - works for standalone viewer and viewer pane.

  • Preferences/Viewer/Plugins
  • disable the WebP plugin and enable the MetaPlugin
  • enable the Edge(Chromium) in the MetaPlugin settings
  • make sure .webP is added as an extension