How do you mark the internet as "finished"?

Posted by jimspoon
Sep 30, 2013 at 08:18 PM

Slartibartfarst wrote:

>Re MHT: Probably not much use to you now that you have switched to
>Chrome, but I can report useful results with my trials of these Firefox
>extensions: (pretty impressive results actually)
> - UnMHT - http://www.unmht.org/unmht/en_index.html
> - Mozilla Archive Format (MHT/MAFF) - http://maf.mozdev.org/
> >The caveat I have is that, though these both work perfectly, the content
>of saved MAFF files (pages) might not always be easily searchable.
>Whether you have saved single or multiple pages/tabs, viewing the
>archive file may be restricted to a Mozilla browser with the MAF
>extnsion. Universal Viewer and Internet Explorer do not seem to be able
>to decode the compression (.ZIP) format they use, though 7-zip can open
>the files OK as an archive.
> >Interestingly, I noticed that the MS Labs OneNote Canvas experimental
>software (circa 2009?) exported/converted all the OneNote .one files
>into .mht files. (It was a one-way conversion only.)

Also excellent extensions, I ran them both at the same time. When I think about the great Firefox extensions - Scrapbook, Tab Mix Plus, Tab Groups Manager, All in One Sidebar, I wonder why I switched! I liked that Chrome allowed me to make “application shortcuts” to webapps and webpages so I could run them in their own windows. Firefox dropped the ball on that. Also liked that Chrome runs each tab in its own process, less prone to crashes and freezes? It also seemed likely I’d have a better experience with Google Webapps in Chrome. Plus perhaps better cross-device synchronization? And a shift in development away from Firefox extensions to Chrome extensions/apps. But I still miss those great Firefox extensions. But I am getting away from Wayne’s topic.

I used to save webpages to MHTs all the time; now very rarely. like Wayne I have mostly shifted to PDFs. I think links are usually no longer clickable when I save a page to PDF, but the PDFs are easy to view regardless of platform or device. I also think I’m going to save my scanned documents and even receipts as PDFs rather than JPEG/TIFF images for the same reason.