Comment by O1111OOO

11 days ago

I gave up a long time ago and started using the "Save as..." on browsers again. At the end of the day, I am interested in the actual content and not the look/feel of the page.

I find it easier to just mass delete assets I don't want from the "pageTitle_files/" directory (js, images, google-analytics.js, etc).

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mikae1  11 days ago

Have you https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/single-file/?

If you really just want the text content you could just save markdown using something like https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/llmfeeder/.

  • O1111OOO  11 days ago

    > Have you https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/single-file/

    Yes I have. I tried maff, mht, SingleFile and some others over the years. MAFF was actually my goto for many years because it was just a zip container. It felt future-proof for a long time until it wasn't (I needed to manually extract contents to view once the supporting extension was gone).

    I seem to recall that MHT caused me a little more of a conversion problem.

    It was my concern for future-proofing that eventually led me back to "Save As..".

    My first choice is "Save as..." these days because I just want easy long-term access to the content. The content is always the key and picking and choosing which asset to get rid of is fairly easy with this. Sometimes it's just all the JS/trackers/ads, etc..

    If "Save as..." fails, I'll try 'Reader Mode' and attempt "Save as.." again (this works pretty well on many sites). As a last resort I'll use SingleFile (which I like too - I tested it on even DOS browsers from the previous century and it passed my testing).

    A locally saved SingleFile can be loaded into FF and I can always perform a "Save As..." on it if I wanted to for some reason (eg; smaller file, js-trackers, cleaner HTML, etc).

gwern  11 days ago

I find that 'save as' horribly breaks a lot of web pages. There's no choice these days but to load pages with JS and serialize out the final quiescent DOM. I also spend a lot of time with uBlock Origin and AlwaysKillSticky and NoScript wrangling my archive snapshots into readability.