One thing I seriously miss in Firefox is to save a html page in its entirety as single file.
I tried spiders and downloaders. However nothing came close to the convenience of CHTML ( Compiled HTML ) made available by IE.
However my faith in humanity was restored when I encountered this great addon for Firefox - Scrapbook. Scrapbook Firefox addon page
A quick look at its features -
Major features are:
- Save Web page
- Save snippet of Web page
- Save Web site [ robot / spider ! ]
- Organize the collection in the same way as Bookmarks
- Full text search and quick filtering search of the collection
- Editing of the collected Web page
- Text/HTML edit feature resembling Opera's Notes
A little more technically scrapbook adds the "spider" feature to firefox allowing to save the pages in categories / folders with tags et al! Now if this isn't awesome I don't know what is. And since its a part of firefox it utilizes its cache to the hilt. No special / additional downloading ( except when you ask it to "follow" links on the page to a certain level. )
Now this goes waaaay beyond the capabilities of chtml. Infact its just perfect if you are a google scout like me and likes to keep notes of things all around. I love it. Give it a try and you'll never save a page like you did again !!
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