Reviews for SingleFile
SingleFile by gildas
909 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by soulrebelno1, 5 years agoBlow me, it works! Why doesn't the built-in Firefox 'Save Page As...' work as well as this add-on? It used to work, but for some reason, it just will not download any html pages these days? I like the way it's all-in-one solution, no need for a separate directory to store files in. It's not clear where the file is saved to, or how to define the download directory. I've since found out that this can be done, by ticking the 'Save as' box in settings - so problem solved! A great Add-on, keep up the good work.
Developer response
posted 5 years agoThank you for the review. You can also save pages into sub-folders of your "Downloads" folder by prefixing the "File name template" value in the options of SingleFile with the sub-folder name(s). For example, the value "Archives/SingleFile/{page-title} ({date-iso} {time-locale}).html" will save pages into the sub-folders "Archives" and "SingleFile" in your "Downloads" folder. - Rated 4 out of 5by browser.tech, 5 years agoI tried SingleFile briefly. It works. Looks like a well thought out and put together addon.
One thing I noticed, when you have the option enabled for "include the info bar in the saved page," the page actually shows a floating icon in the upper corner. If you click on this icon a flyout will indicate the time the page was saved, then if you hover over a tiny button on the flyout the original URL will popup. Clicking the tiny button takes you to the original URL.
This all looks nice, but I prefer the way Save Page WE does it. Save Page displays a fixed header bar with the full URL and time the page was saved. For someone like me who's always paying attention to the URL bar this is nicer. It's easier to understand that the page you're viewing is an archive, and easier to get to the original page with a single click.
Note that both the floating icon in SingleFile and the header bar in Save Page WE can be closed.
I also notice that neither SingleFile or Save Page WE works in FireFox reader view. A small thing, but it would be nice. That's what I was really looking for when I tried SingleFile.Developer response
posted 5 years agoThanks for the review. It is technically impossible to make an add-on run in the reader view. However, you can format the page, as the reader view does, in the annotation editor by clicking the button "format the page for better readability" (page with glasses icon) when present. - Rated 5 out of 5by keaton, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 5818154, 5 years agoGénial !!!! 10/10 (ce n'est pas souvent que je donne une telle note !)
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13462509, 5 years agoDoes a pretty good job, since Firefox can't save a page.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Larry, 5 years agoExcellent Add-on! - It is well thought out and well designed and has been a long-time coming. But gildas did it right. Everything you need using the latest technology. Remember the old .mht files used to save web pages. Well this is much, much better and is not dependent on any special software. Thank You gildas!
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15915095, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by ROBIN, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Ates, 5 years agoAlmost the best extension possible (for it's purposes). Please, consider adding an ability to save gif AND turn youtube frames to a link (which is showing instead of youtube frame).
Anyway, thank You very much for such nice peace of software!)Developer response
posted 5 years agoThank you for the review. Saving GIFs should be okay. For example, the GIF of the demo on https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile can be saved without any particular issue. Replacing frames with a link to their URL is an interesting idea. If you want to discuss it, don't hesitate to contact me by email or on Github. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 6015950, 5 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by adgbrshruwzawrh, 5 years agoGanz toll finde ich die Funktionen zum Markieren von Textstellen und das Anbringen von Notizen sowie das Entfernen von störenden Elementen wie einer CookieBox oder Werbung (das hat 'Save Page WE' nicht).
Diese Funktion, alles in einer Datei zu speichern finde ich sehr hilfreich, da mir durch Umbenennung schon manches mal kaputtgespielte Links die Seite zerschossen haben.
Allerdings habe ich den Mehrwert noch nicht recht erkannt: wenn ich zum Beispiel eine Seite von Techstage speichere, funktionieren Galerien unter Verwendung der Speicherfunktion von Firefox einwandfrei – mit SingleFile jedoch nicht (habe eine Weile mit den Prefs experimentiert). - Rated 5 out of 5by pigpen, 5 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by piecevcake, 5 years agoExcellent well structured and many options.
A pity the annotated pages are lost between sessions. Otherwise it would replace all the markup addons as well!
Would have 5 stars if it worked on moz pages.
Reply to Dev- THIS page for example, and addons page. Will open on githubDeveloper response
posted 5 years agoThank you for the review. That's unfortunately impossible from a technical point of view to save a moz: page. I do not know what moz: page you want to save but if that's the reader view, note that there is a button in the annotation editor to format the page like in the reader view. If you have an account on github, I recommend to open an issue if you want to discuss about this.
Reply #2
THIS page cannot be saved with Firefox because Mozilla blocks extensions on some of their domains. You can use another browser like Chrome to circumvent this limitation though. - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 15893557, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Martin J… D…, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by marcgrant00, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 12148057, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Heni, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Herobrine & Entity 303, 5 years agoGood add-on, now I can save the whole page, including all elements on the page
- Rated 5 out of 5by DJ Kavas, 5 years ago