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Tue, Mar 03, 2026 3:33 pm

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:

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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Fri, Feb 20, 2026 11:01 pm

Clearing the cache for a webpage displayed in Firefox

I had opened an HTML file in the Firefox browser and needed to refresh the display of the file, which was using a CSS file located on a remote web server, after the remote CSS file had changed. Clicking on the refresh/reload button on the Firefox navigation bar or pressing the F5 key would show changes I made to the local file, but would not reflect changes to the remote CSS file, which was cached on the local system's disk drive. You can remove a cached CSS for a specific webpage by performing a forced reload of that webpage. A forced reload tells Firefox to ignore the cached files and download fresh copies from the server. The keyboard shortcut, which works on Linux, is to hold down Ctrl + Shift + R or Ctrl + F5. Alternatively, you can hold the Shift key and click the Reload button on the navigation toolbar. This is usually the quickest solution for a single page.

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Mon, Feb 02, 2026 10:07 pm

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.

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Mon, Aug 21, 2023 9:56 pm

Pinning Evernote to the Microsoft Edge browser toolbar

TO pin the Evernote Web Clipper extension to the toolbar in the Microsoft Edge browser, click on the 3 dots at the top, right-hand corner of an Edge browser window, then select Extensions, then click on the Evernote Web Clipper extension, and then click on the icon that appears to the right of it, which will have a slash through it if an icon for the extension has not yet been added to the toolbar.

Add icon for Evernote to Edge

That will remove the slash from the icon and add an icon for Evernote, the green elephant head, to the toolbar.

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Fri, Aug 18, 2023 2:54 pm

Pinning a Brave browser extension

If you would like an extension you have added to the Brave browser to have an icon at the top of a Brave browser window, you can "pin" it to the right of the address bar in the browser by clicking on the icon that looks like a puzzle piece that appears to the right of the address bar, which will result in a list of installed extensions appearing, and then clicking on the pushpin icon for an extension that you would like to be "pinned" so that an icon for the extension appears to the left of that puzzle piece icon, allowing you to click on the extension's icon to use the extension. E.g., for the Evernote Web Clipper extension shown below, if I click on the pushpin icon next to it, an icon for the Evernote extension than appears next to the puzzle piece icon.

Brave browser - Pin Evernote

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Fri, Feb 04, 2022 3:27 pm

Evernote - Clipper has encountered an error

Recently, when I've tried to save a webpage to Evernote in the Brave web browser, I frequently see the message "Clipper has encountered an error" with "Unknown error occurred. UNK."

Clipper unknown error

I have been able to save the page by disabling and then re-enabling the Evernote extension in the browser. In the Brave Browser, you can do so by closing the error message window, then clicking on the icon of 3 short horizontal bars at the upper, left-hand side of the Brave window which will display a menu of options. Select "extensions" and then click on the red slider button at the bottom, right-hand side of the Evernote Web Clipper extension to turn it off (it will go from red to gray).

Evernote Web Clipper
Extension

Then click on it again to re-enable the extension. You can then close the Brave extensions tab (brave://extensions). You will then need to refresh the page. After I've disabled and re-enabled the extension when I've seen the error message, I've then been able to click on the icon for Evernote near the browser's address bar and save webpages to Evernote.

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Thu, May 06, 2021 10:59 pm

Importing Firefox Bookmarks and Saved Passwords into Microsoft Edge

If you wish to import bookmarks and/or saved passwords from the Firefox web browser into the Microsoft Edge browser, you can take the following steps:
  1. Click the star with the 3 horizontal lines on it at the top, right corner of the Edge browser window which is used to access your favorite websites.
  2. Click the ellipsis, i.e., the "...", at the top, right corner of the browser window and select Import Favorites.
  3. Change "import from" to "Mozilla Firefox" and then click on Import after deselecting other options, if there are some things like saved passwords that you don't want to import. If you want to import all of the items selected by default, just click on Import.
  4. When you see "All done," you can click on the Done button and you can then close the tab (Ctrl-W is one way to close it).

To view the imported bookmarks, click on the star with 3 lines on it to access the Edge favorites, which are akin to the Firefox bookmarks. You will see "Other favorites" listed under Favorites; you can click on the arrowhead to the left of "Other favorites" to see your imported bookmarks.

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Mon, Nov 16, 2020 7:55 pm

Extracting image files from Google Chrome Cache

I wanted to save a local copy of an image on a webpage I was viewing in the Google Chrome browser on a Windows 10 system, but I couldn't right-click on it to download it, so I thought I could look for it in the Chrome browser cache, which is located at C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Cache where username is the name of the relevant account on a Windows system. I had the ChromeCacheView program from NirSoft on the system, which provides a command-line option to copy image files from the Chrome cache for a user, so I used it. Since I was logged into a regular user account, I opened a command prompt as the administrator and then made the working directory the directory where the ChromeCacheView program was located with cd C:\Program Files (x86)\Network\NirSoft\ChromeCacheView. Then from that directory I issued the command below:

chromecacheview -folder "C:\Users\JohnDoe\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Cache\" /copycache "" "image/png" /CopyFilesFolder "c:\users\johndoe\documents\temp\chrome" /UseWebSiteDirStructure 0

You can use the -folder option to tell ChromeCacheView which user's cache file you wish to use while the /copycache option can be used to specify the directory where you want images, such as PNG files, to be copied—in this case I was looking for a .png file because when I examined the HTML code on the webpage I thought that the the image was a PNG file. I created a temp\chrome directory under the Documents directory for the user account prior to issuing the command to hold the images stored in the cache. After the command completed, I could see all of the PNG files that had been in the Chrome cache in that temporary directory I had created.

When I didn't see the image I was looking for, I thought I might have misidentified it in the code, so I copied all of the image files from the cache directory, not just the PNG ones by changing "image/png" to "image" in the command. I.e.:

chromecacheview -folder "C:\Users\JohnDoe\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Cache\" /copycache "" "image" /CopyFilesFolder "c:\users\johndoe\documents\temp\chrome" /UseWebSiteDirStructure 0

That copied AVIF (.avif), BMP GIF (.gif), icon (.ico), JPEG (.jpg), JPEG File Interchange Format (JFIF) (.jfif), SVG (.svg), and WebP (.webp) files from the cache as well as the PNG ones.

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Wed, Apr 15, 2020 3:07 pm

Unable to type in Microsoft Edge address field

I couldn't type anything in the Microsoft Edge address bar where URLs are entered nor could I type in the "Find on page" field in Edge on a Microsoft Windows 10 system. But in tabs opened to pages where I might type some input, such as a tab in which I was viewing a Wikipedia article, I cold type and see what I had typed appear. E.g., in the Wikipedia tab, I could search for other Wikipedia articles. And in the outlook.com tab that was also open, I could compose email messages. I could also type input into the Microsoft Windows "Type here to search" field at the bottom of the screen. When I searched online for a possible resolution to the problem, I found a couple of pages where people linked it to McAfee antivirus software on the system, but that isn't installed on the system. I also saw a couple of pages where people stated that running the built-in Windows ctfmon.exe program might resolve the problem. I opened a command prompt and issued the tasklist command to see if it was already running. It was and when I ran it again anyway, there was no change to the problem.

C:\>tasklist | find /i "ctfmon"
ctfmon.exe                   25000 Console                    3     22,444 K

C:\>ctfmon.exe

C:\>

Closing and reopening Microsoft Edge resolved the problem.

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Fri, Mar 01, 2019 10:33 pm

Installing the Pale Moon Web Browser on CentOS 7

I wanted to try the Pale Moon web browser, which is free and open-source software (FOSS) on a CentOS 7 Linux system, but when I tried installing it with yum, the package was not found.

# yum install palemoon
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, langpacks
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
 * base: centos-distro.1gservers.com
 * epel: archive.linux.duke.edu
 * extras: centos.host-engine.com
 * updates: centos.den.host-engine.com
No package palemoon available.
Error: Nothing to do
#

I was able to resolve the problem, by adding the Pale Moon repository.

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