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Is it possible to save a webpage in a way that embeds the URL of the page being saved? (crazypeople.online)
submitted 6 months ago by rageAgainstCages@crazypeople.online to c/firefox_@crazypeople.online
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If I save a page to a local HTML file, I do not see where the URL of the page itself is saved. There is no comment or anything at the top that contains the URL. So I have to either add a comment manually myself or make a note of it somewhere, or bookmark it.

Is there a smarter way of working? Can the URL be derived or fished out of the saved file, or is there any feature that saves the URL as well?

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[-] rageAgainstCages@crazypeople.online 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I appreciate the tip. It was alienating at first but after some fiddling it seems like a good option. My findings--

Pros

  • It’s able to save a page as a single file which can be opened in both Firefox and Chromium browsers (rare!)
  • It’s able to faithfully save a Github issue page that correctly renders when re-opened. (All other tools fail on a GH issue)
  • The URL is embedded on the 3rd line of the file (rare.. no other tool does this)

Cons

  • No control over where it saves the file
  • Forced GUI, no commandline (though I’m not sure if it can be hacked to run automatically in a headless Firefox or something)
  • No icon appears in the plugin tray. And cannot be added using the Firefox custom toolbar tool.
  • Default keystroke is control-shift-y (which clashes with the stock keystroke for reaching about:downloads)
  • There is no menu item for it

I was only able to get it to work by re-assigning a custom keystroke which I will forget and have to visit the addon manager to recall.

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