I'm a huge fan of FireFox and many of its indispensable Add-Ons, somewhat less so for Google Chrome and some of its extensions. (It should be said that there are some facilities of the latter that are not easily found, if at all, in FF.) So I keep both. My FF tends to be the portable version from PortableApps.Com, on the majority of my systems. I really like the portable apps -- pretty much exclusively the .PAF type -- as they are sort of like phantom programs: they are present when you wish to use them, but have no presence in the Registry. Therefore, they should never conflict with anything else on your system, and you can have more than one program of the same category, without them clashing or one of them trying to become exclusive. I've even had both of these browsers open at the
same time. (IE is something I dislike very much, and have virtually no use for.)
For PDF capture, I use the faux printer program PDF Redirect. But that won't really resolve the issue you mention. Perhaps the paid, 'Pro' version of this allows you to combine several of these captures into one -- I'm not sure.
Another item I use a lot is the FF add-on 'Extended Copy Menu.'
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/user/gronar/?src="When there is some problem with the browser's saving a page as HTML, because this only seems to include some but not all of your page (and that happens more than you might think, often varying from browser to browser, particularly with pages that were annoyingly composed for IE only), you can resort to one of the IE Tab extensions. Or, what I often do instead is use Extended Copy Menu to save defined webpage text as HTML, dumping it into Notepad, then saving that
as All Files | Unicode (just in case) | .Htm named file. This may not be all that pretty either, but it is usually a sufficient representation of the entire web page content you wanted to save, when the browser wouldn't.
I know very little about HTML, but my impression is that you can't use the above method for concatenating pages 1 -5 as in this example, because the HTML coding will become nonsensical in the process. Maybe you could clean it up after the fact with Kompozer, if you knew what you were doing, which I don't.
Other FF extensions I use for stubborn capture situations are MAFF and ABDUCTION, the latter being of the graphical snapshot variety. No page concatenation options there either, unfortunately.
I hope some of these may prove useful to list members reading this. And there may well be some other good tools that we did not know about
yet.
Jordan
From: Carl Distefano
To: xywrite@xxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2013 11:35 PM
Subject: Re: History of OS/2
Reply to note from Kari Eveli lexitec@xxxxxxxx Thu, 28 Nov 2013
08:54:04 +0200
> If you use Firefox, the best way to keep records is the
> Scrapbook extension.
Thanks, Kari. I've installed it, and it does look very useful. While
I was searching for it, I came across a "Print pages to PDF" add-on.
I opened each of the 5 pages of the OS/2 article in 5 different
tabs, then chose the "Print all Tabs" option and it printed them
all, in the correct order, to a serviceable if not pretty PDF. I
like the portability of the PDF format.
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Carl Distefano
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