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UnMHT Saves Multiple Tabs as Complete HTML Files
Posted by Kevin Purdy at 11:00 PM on July 16, 2008
Windows/Mac/Linux (Firefox): Free Firefox extension UnMHT gives Firefox the same abilities to save a complete web page as one file—sound, pictures, video, and all—as Internet Explorer and Opera already have, but with a multi-tab bonus. Once installed, Firefox can open any of the MIME HTML (.mht) files saved by another browser, but UnMHT also adds a "Save all tabs as MHT" option, letting you store an entire browsing session as multiple MHT files with two clicks. Great for saving a work session for later restoration, or saving what you're looking at now for complete offline reading later. UnMHT is a free download, works wherever Firefox does.
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jarhead
Posted 11:22 PM 16/7/08
Rock! I can now open my OneNote MHTML files in Firefox. This was the only reason I had to use Internet Explorer. Never again! Great find.
By the way, it opens the OneNote MHTML files perfectly!
jarhead
dennis_k85
Posted 12:10 AM 17/7/08
It won't load for me. It starts to install and then just stops in the middle of the install. And the only message is stopped.
dennis_k85
MrKlappstuhl
Posted 12:33 AM 17/7/08
For saving webpages you can also use Scrapbook. FF Addon, too.
There you can also edit and highlight the saved websites
MrKlappstuhl
nerdly
Posted 2:29 AM 17/7/08
Anyone know if you can upload .mht files onto a web server and have it viewable in any browser?
I flawlessly do this a lot with the ScrapBook addon as html files, one of my top must-have addons. You can (manually) combine multiple pages into a single page.
nerdly
zkam
Posted 2:56 AM 17/7/08
Firefox already has the ability to save a complete page. (File->Save As..., choose to Save as Type "Web Page, Complete"). It saves them as .HTM files (by default). Is this different than a .MHT file? If so, then this addon just gives you the ability to save multiple tabs at once, right?
zkam
sumocat
Posted 3:36 AM 17/7/08
@zkam: "Web Page, Complete" saves the embedded images (I think scripts and stylesheets too) in a subfolder. All the files are saved, but as separate files. Saving to .mht combines everything in a single file.
sumocat
raveheart
Posted 4:21 AM 17/7/08
Wonderful. I've been keeping a spare version of FF2 solely to use the MAF (Mozilla Archive Format) add-on which doesn't work in FF3.
I always save copies of web pages I need/like as I've been caught out too many times in the past with links dying.
Saving to a .mht file is better than printing to pdf when the page has hyperlinks (I've not found a pdf creator which preserves links when printing a web page - anyone know of one?). There are also some sites where the page formatting goes haywire when saving as a pdf.
raveheart
raveheart
Posted 4:50 AM 17/7/08
@iOsiris
I tried that but even though the add-on would be listed as 'installed', it wouldn't do anything.
raveheart
iOsiris
Posted 4:45 AM 17/7/08
Mozilla Achieve Format works in FF3 if you changed the max version in the xpi.
iOsiris
pschroeter
Posted 6:17 AM 17/7/08
Wow, I just found this extension on my own last month. I looked into MAF but I think it is abandoned. When I saved my first webpage with UnMht I recognized the icon for the MHT file it creates and realized that I have already occasionally been seeing this format all along, I just couldn't create or open them in Firefox.
pschroeter
th3n33ms
Posted 9:14 AM 17/7/08
Does anyone know of a Firefox extension that will take all your open tabs and put all the links into a single html file?
th3n33ms
nerdly
Posted 11:23 AM 17/7/08
@th3n33ms, A long way: with ScrapBook addon, save each tab, then use the Combine wizard to put it all to one page, then export the single page.
nerdly
Daniel
Posted 11:10 AM 17/7/08
@raveheart: The PDF download extension beta does that. They work perfectly. The only thing I've really found that is useful to it. Although it takes forever (web page > PDF i mean).
Daniel
Daniel
azpat
Posted 3:30 AM 18/7/08
@raveheart: At university we had a site license for the professional version of Adobe Acrobat (not the reader, but the creator). It had a very nice save to pdf feature that handled links. It took some tweaking as every site is a little different, but it was exactly what I wanted: A Site-Ripper to PDF tool.
azpat
raveheart
Posted 9:41 PM 18/7/08
@azpat
*bangs forehead*
I've got Acrobat pro and never tried this (I've always printed to pdf rather than create pdf from webpage) and it's exactly what I'm after.
However, the problem with both Acrobat and PDF download (thanks Daniel!) is that they won't save pages from an authenticated session. I'm surprised Acrobat can't do this even when I'm logged into a site - unless I'm missing an option somewhere.
raveheart