One other thing that you could do instead: - Create a "private" appspot site to proxy your page views that you want to save. - In this app, use gears to save to a local DB all the pages you visit. - When going offline, leverage gears functionality to "browse offline".
2008/9/18 Scipher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Yes, that would seem like a good way to do it and is the way I am > currently doing it. It is just that saving up to 12 tabs per browser > session then organising them when you open them up again at home is a > administrative nightmare especially when you are reading up on a > variety of subjects which you then have to organise on your usb stick > aswell. > > This has the potential to capture a session as is at one computer and > take it to another in a single "storage" unit and either reading it > offline or conitnuing to browse further at the new machine. There are > as you suggest current ways around this, but I think this would neaten > up the process and also prove to be usefull in other domains for > instance you are doing a research project and have saved your web > sources in this new magical chrome feature. You could then write this > file to backup somewhere and when you read your research paper in > future and wonder what gave me this idea or that idea you can go and > open up the file which contained that thead of thought if you name the > file appropriately. > > But yes, I agree there are current ways of doing it. I just think that > this way would prove to be more usefull since it works on a more > familiar model to software users. i.e. open office document, you can > edit it at work save it to file take it home double click on it and > continue from there. I am just thinking of a similair features for > entire browser sessions, ie handling all open tabs as a whole and not > saving each tab individually. > > > On Sep 17, 4:41 pm, "Marc-Antoine Ruel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I'd rather recommend you to save the pages locally to your usb stick. >> The command is in the page menu. >> >> M-A >> >> 2008/9/17 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> >> >> >> > Hi All, >> >> > This is my first post to this group as I just had a idea, and am >> > putting it forward to the community for a possible feature for >> > chromium, this is a feature which has been lacking in all browsers in >> > my opinion, here it is : >> >> > Scenario: >> >> > Say you are busy at work doing some research on the net on using >> > pointers or stack overflows for instance, when you realize it is time >> > to go home, what do you do ? >> >> > Current Day (Assumes internet connection available at home) : >> >> > Get bookmarks for all the open pages currently open in your browser >> > (Firefox/IE/Opera/Safari/Chrome etc etc ), transport these bookmarks >> > home somehow (email, flashstick) etc. Open all the sites using the >> > bookmarks wait for pageloads and continue further. >> >> > Problem With Current Day Scenario : >> > Well in my situation: I live in a low bandwidth country where internet >> > connections are EXTREMELY EXPENSIVE (South Africa) and they are slow >> > and we are capped at ridiculously low amounts of data transfer so >> > opening large amounts of pages from links are slow and time consuming. >> > I also like reading especial creating threads of pages with related >> > content in one browser session in firefox/chrome this forms threads of >> > research or thought this is a cumbersome experience, I am sure that >> > other people do the same. >> >> > Feature Suggestion : >> > Is it possible to purge the current open browser session into a >> > compressed (LZMA) file and saving it to a local drive (flashtick/ >> > external HDD) and save this session to >> > "Pointer_StackOverflow.gcs" (gcs extention -> google chrome session) >> > transport this home and open the session file with google chrome ie, >> > the page loads are near instantaneous since it is from local disk and >> > continue my "thread of thought/research" reading at home without the >> > assumption that the person has an internet connection. I know this is >> > a mundane problem in countries where high bandwidths are not a problem >> > but in the 3rd world this is a serious problem in my opinion. >> >> > Like I said this is a problem I have and what I think would make a >> > very good feature for a next generation browser also fulfilling one of >> > the cornerstone principles of free software, the fact that it is >> > free. :-) >> >> > Hope this is received as it was intended when writing. >> >> > -Scipher > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Chromium-discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
