Firefox won't save Web Page, complete
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I'm using Firefox 16.0.2 on a Windows 7 machine. Works great, except when I try to save a webpage that has pictures. I have Windows IE on the same machine, and I can do this by choosing save Complete Web Page in the save window, but that won't work in Firefox. It saves the page, but there are just empty windows where pictures should be.
What could be wrong? Thanks! I am using Aurora 16.0a2 (2012-07-19) and I am on Vista - same results on wife's Windows 7.
I just downloaded this page: http://camarocollection.com/specials/ne ... s-kit.html and it saves the main .html page to the directory I select and creates subdirectories for images and .js files. Have you tried Help/Start Firefox with Addons Disabled (dont check any boxes)? or a clean profile? ~ I'm only here to Pay it Forward. ~
"I often take a very long windy road to my destination. When I arrive I often wonder how I missed the shortcut". Same results as BruceAWittmeier on Firefox 17 WinXP
"Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done."
~ Andy Rooney Well, just like IE, it does save a secondary folder with pics and such, along with the saved .htm file, but when I go later to look at the saved .htm, the pics or whatever else in the secondary file will not open. The pic files are there in the secondary folder-I can open them up seperately, but they will not open in the main .htm page.
Any suggestions? I just tried restarting Firefox with the add on's turned off as Bruce suggested. Still won't sav....maybe the better word is sync the pics to the .htm page (as the folder with pics in it is there). I'm sure this is some kind of settings mistake...but what?
The IE behavior and the Firefox behavior are the same, as intended. I think there may be an extension that may do that. You will have to do some searching to find one if it exists. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo ... rm=windows "Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done."
~ Andy Rooney No, they are not the same. IE saves "complete" webpages as it should and opens them with pics and all. Firefox does not! It saves everything, but only opens the basic .htm page. It's as if the link between the main .htm page, and the folder of it's supporting pics and such, doesn't exist. Save webpage complete not working in any web browser is a serious enough problem to put one off Firefox if it can't be figured out.
An extension that would make Firefox fail to save complete webpages? Doesn't make sense! Besides, as I said, running it without any add-on's running didn't help. What can folks tell me about Opera? Try the new profile as Bruce suggested... make no changes to it ... then see what happens... something may have gone bad in your default profile.
Creating a new Firefox profile on Windows - MozillaZine Knowledge Base If all else fails... I've had pretty good luck with this extension... plus it organizes my saved pages pretty well. ScrapBook :: Add-ons for Firefox As you can see she's (The CAT) always alert and on the prowl for Meoware !!
Okay, tried to create a new profile. Thankfully saved the old one as the new one dumped all my setups. It also had no effect on the original problem.
I tried the Scrapbook ext. and this indeed allows me to save whole pages. I can live with that, but where does Scrapbook save files, and can it be setup to save somewhere else? First... a new profile is just that... a basic one ... just like the first time you installed Firefox...it is usually used to test stuff out like you did.
Did you go into its Options? ... among other things is an options to point its output to a place of your choice... I left my as default and it created a folder "in" my profile area. As you can see she's (The CAT) always alert and on the prowl for Meoware !!
Usually, with the web page complete you'll get the images in the second folder but there's no transition of the "click to enlarge" or "View Image" link from the web site server address to the local folder link in the html page. I used to have to edit this stuff when working on books with a lot of illustrations. Usually it worked out better because it dumped the thumbs and kept the full size image. There's also those sites which use a CSS script which don't provide the images unless online. Some form of security thing, best guess.
Yes, I tried Options for Scrapbook. I set it to save files in a Temp folder I have on the hard drive. But it only saves something called a .rdf file and a folders.txt file, NOT the webpage itself (at least nothing I can open). It also saves a Data Folder, but there's no .htm page in that folder.
Grumpus, I don't understand. My IE saves these very same pages as complete files perfectly, just as I want. Is this just a flaw in Firefox??
No this is not a flaw. It works just exactly as you describe for IE. There must be something about your PC/Firefox/Configuration that is causing it to not work correctly. I noticed you are using WOW64 with Ver 16. Are you trying different versions of Fx? Your first post: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:16.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/16.0 Your second post: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 9.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/5.0) Your last post: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/17.0 Firefox/17.0 Is Version 17 failing the same way and as you change versions are you running the same experiments with each version? ~ I'm only here to Pay it Forward. ~
"I often take a very long windy road to my destination. When I arrive I often wonder how I missed the shortcut".
I guess I have to ask you this... are you trying to save a web page so that you can go back and review it some months later... especially if the orig. data is now gone from the server? ... or are you trying to do something deeper... I ask that because I just opened up (using the Scrapbook extension) a web page that I saved about a year ago and all pics were there... it was an Ebay page and the main (larger) pic for the product was as it was originally... but, the smaller pics that a user can normally click on to enlarge were still there but could not be enlarged.... but, everything was there. As far as the .rdr and .txt type files... Scrapbook is a sub-app that saves that web data and in order to view it as it looked when it was saved Scrapbook saves some data and controls the subsequent viewing of an old web page using that data... like some of the files you noted. If you want to view those old web pages again you need to still use Scrapbook to do so... you should see some of its functions in the Tools area... or other areas depending what you told it to do in its options settings. As you can see she's (The CAT) always alert and on the prowl for Meoware !!
Did you check the page source of the main HTML file with an editor to check if Firefox has converted the image locations to point to the files folder where the images are saved?
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