From Ricky:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=154580
:)
I looked through this bug comment list - not quite sure if I
understood what was going on - but it seems people wanted this
feature some years ago but that idea seems to have faded from the
scene. Is that right?
My friend responded to Ricky's post with the following, which I quote
below in case it throws some more light on what he wants, for which
someone here may have a solution.
Ruth
That's the best I've come across outside Explorer and maybe Firefox
(see below), but no, it isn't good enough. For one thing, it doesn't
solve the problem of what to do if you want to give a reference to a
page that is no longer live, which can and does happen. And it also
means (I presume) that you can't get at the URL if you don't have a
functioning connection to the internet at that time.
I put a message some time ago on a Firefox forum and was told about
a Firefox extension called Scrapbook. This saves the URL but it also
insists on saving all files in a special Scrapbook folder rather
than in ordinary folders. There may be a way round this (it is a
problem for me because it interferes with my filing system and my
backup system) but I haven't yet spent enough time with Scrapbook to
find out.
What I find strange is that (for once) Microsoft have produced a
simple, practical solution to what is (for me) an everyday problem,
and all the other products involve complicated and clumsy
work-arounds of one kind or another. If you want to cite a web page
in a scholarly publication, you need to cite the full URL and the
date of downloading. Explorer does this, no fuss, no problems (other
than the fact that Explorer is not being supported for OS X past the
present outdated version). None of the others do.
Firefox (normal version, not using Scrapbook) does have one
advantage over Explorer when it comes to saving pages. If you save a
page in Firefox, it saves all the associated files in a folder
rather than in an archive file like Explorer. This means that if you
want to get at a picture or mp3 file associated with a page, you can
do it. With Explorer, you have to save it separately, and this isn't
always possible (particularly with mp3 files).
On Apr 3, 2006, at 2:17 PM, Joshua Root wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A Mac-owning friend, now using Firefox, is seeking a browser that when
he saves a page will save the URL with it. I see that Camino saves the
title of the page, but not the URL. Is there some way to change this?
Probably not what you want to hear, but OmniWeb puts the URL of files it
downloads in the comments field of the "Get Info" window. Camino could no
doubt be patched to do the same, but I have no idea how easy or difficult it
would be.
- Josh
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