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0 pointsimtringued8y ago0 comments

I still haven't found a reliable way to save webpages. Firefox and wget won't download stylesheets or script tags generated by javascript. The only working approach is to print webpages as PDFs. It's a pretty terrible platform for documents.

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projectant8y ago

That's a good point. How do you create a "local working archive" of a website? It's a really good idea. Want to get started on working on some project like this?

reitanqild8y ago

Scrapbook extension for Firefox (one of the winners from either the first or second extension context IIRC) used to do this in a fantastic way.

You could download

- a page on it's own

- a page an all pages recursively for up to 3 levels

- optionally filtered by domain or path inside domain

- optionally including javascript (IIRC)

Sadly this is now broken in the new extension model and fixing it doesn't seem to be a priority.

Firefox is still my favourite browser by far but my enthusiasm isn't as strong as it used to be.

On the bright side even if it doesn't seem to be a priority work seems to progress on bringing the new extension APIs to a point where several of the old extensions can be recreated.

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