Adding the capability to save webpages as a single file to Firefox

The Firefox web browser does not have the capability to save the contents of a webpage to a single file, such as an MHTML file, which is a web archive file format that allows one to save the HTML code, images etc. on a webpage into a single file. Though the capability is absent from Firefox, you can add the functionality of saving a page to a single file by installing Save Page WE, an add-on for Firefox by DW-dev. The extension provides the capability to "Save a complete web page (as currently displayed) as a single HTML file that can be opened in any browser. Save a single page, multiple selected pages or a list of page URLs. Automate saving from command line." The saved file is not an MHTML file, or one of the other common web archiving file formats, but it is a single HTML file that Firefox and other browsers can read. Save Page WE is implemented using the WebExtensions API and is available for both Firefox and Chrome with identical functions and user interfaces.

When you start the installation process, you will see a list of the permissions required by the extension:

• Access your data for all websites
• Download files and read and modify the browser's download history
• Display notifications to you
• Access browser tabs
• Access browser activity during navigation

Click on the Add button to add the extension. You should then see the message "Save Page WE was added. Update permissions and data preferences any time in the extension settings." You also have the option to pin the extension to the toolbar.

Select the option to pin the extension to the toolbar, which will result in an icon of a 3.5" floppy disk appearing on the toolbar. You can click on that icon to save the page displayed in the current browser tab.

You can also save a page by hitting the Alt+A key combination (you can cancel the saving of a page with At+C). The file format is HTML rather than MHTML, so the file extension used by SavePageWE is .html, which Firefox can open — if you try to open a file with the .mhtml extension, Firefox will prompt you to use another application to open the file.

Anyone who wishes to have the ability to save a webpage as a single file added to Firefox, can add their voice to the post at Add native Web Archive File support to Firefox, including MHTML, MAFF, and Webarchive...

References

1. How to save a webpage as .mhtml with Firefox?
   Last updated: September 15, 2024
   superuser
2. Add native Web Archive File support to Firefox, including MHTML, MAFF, and Webarchive...
   Date: August 15, 2023
   By: JohnBoyTheGreat
   moz://a Connect

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Turning off Fast Startup on a system running Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows 8 introduced a feature called Fast Startup. The feature was a variation of hibernate mode, but when enabled would close all running programs and log the user out before hibernating. This feature would result in a user being able to log in more quickly when a system is powered back on after a shutdown. There may be cases where use of this feature is not desirable, however. E.g., if the user wants to boot the system into Linux, but still access data on the Windows boot drive. To turn fast startup off, you can take the following steps:

1. Type Control Panel in the Windows Search field at the bottom of the screen.
2. Click on System and Security.
3. Click on Change what the power buttons do under Power Options.
4. Click on Change settings that are currently unavailable. If prompted for administrator credentials, provide those for an administrator account.
5. Uncheck the check box next to "Turn on fast startup (recommended)".
6. Click on Save changes. You can then close the window.

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Controlling whether a scrollbar appears in a tab in a Terminal window

I needed to scroll back through a tab I had open in a Terminal window on an Ubuntu Linux system, but there was no scrollbar on the right side of the tab in which I had run the command, though a scrollbar was open in other Terminal tabs. I was able to get the scrollbar to appear by clicking on the icon with 3 horizontal bars at the top of the Terminal window and then selecting Preferences.

Then from the Behavior tab, I changed the setting from Follow System to Always, which resulted in the scrollbar appearing where it had been missing, but I could not scroll back any further than the text that had been appearing in the tab before I changed the settiing and that remained the same whenever I issued another command and text moved upwards, so that I could no longer see it or scroll back to see it, so I closed the tab.

When I opened another tab, the scrollbar was there and operated as expected.

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