Comments on: What’s The Best Way To Save A Web Page?

By: manigordo

manigordo — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 05:47:02 +0000

I disagree… MHTL is only convenient because it is a single file. Yet it is not very portable nor standardized. It tries its best to preserve the layout and appearance of a site; but not always succeeds in doing so. They are also huge files; suitable for foolproof mail text attachments. I prefer save Web Page Complete, because I consider it to be 'an structured mini site rip', and to have a higher like close-enough rendering. Crummy ads, JS and all… For all that, I think it might better to have a generic option to be save as + afterwards Zip (call it ZMHT, ZHTM, or whatever extension you'd like). This action should also be easy configurable and could easily be set as a default; for those of us that despise MHTML. The cache should also be more used; regardless of the format; instead of virtually trying to re-load/fresh every single bit of information.

By: Graham

Graham — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 23:38:21 +0000

Useful info . . I’ve downloaded Opera tonite to check it out. Two things! 1.I needed your article to remind me to use CTRL-S to save (couldn’t see any Help within Opera and 2)CTRL-S doesn’t supply the option you mentioned but HTML worked OK

By: Foolness

Foolness — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 05:44:56 +0000

Thanks Rob. I wasn’t familiar with UnMHT before. It would be nice to not always rely on Opera for saving/opening as .mht

I’m a newb at it and I was having problems making Firefox recognize the .mht file.

Whenever I try to have the file opened with Firefox, it keeps looping into the download dialog. Hope this extension fixes it.

By: Rob Crombie

Rob Crombie — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 07:04:08 +0000

I have been saving web pages as .MHT for years.
And I get on my soapbox any chance I get to convert the masses.
I cannot understand why people are saving as complete web pages, with the baggage of an accompanying ….._files folder (which can contain paths 6 miles wide in there).
Using IE8 or 7 has complications, if you image your hard drive.
Say you have previously created an image, and your PC or hard drive crashes.
If you place your image in a new PC, you will have to do a repair, to get it to work with the new hardware.
IE8 will then shoot you in the foot, as the XP repair can only handle IE6

Alternative ways of saving as .MHT are -
1) Opera does it easily with Built in option when saving.
2) FireFox has an extension called unMHT which is perfect.
The only irritation with unMHT is it does not integrate into the Save dialog.
What you can do is set the keyboard shortcut to Ctrl Spacebar
Let me show how convenient this is.
Let us say you highlight a couple of words on the web page, which you want to be the name of your saved file.
You just use -
Ctrl C
Ctrl Spacebar
Ctrl V
Enter

By: Foolness

Foolness — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 21:06:59 +0000

For casual users, I feel it is much better to skip these methods and head directly to Web Clippers.

I don’t know what’s the best method to educate people but do a search for these:

Surfulator (not free)
Scrapbook+ (firefox extension)
Evernote

and if you prefer online:

Diigo
Snipd.com

By: Tahsin KOCAMAN

Tahsin KOCAMAN — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 14:05:15 +0000

Opera is also able to save as mht format.