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Did we lose the option to keep local copies of webpages? (crazypeople.online)

submitted 2 weeks ago by rageAgainstCages@crazypeople.online to c/firefox_@crazypeople.online

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There used to be a feature whereby a bookmarked page could be flagged for offline use. Then when you visit that page, it instantly renders the page regardless of whether you are online. Was that removed?

There is a «File→Work Offline» tickbox, but that’s apparently something different because it gives no way to specify which pages should function offline.

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[–] Ja7sh_The_Donkey@piefed.social 2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Use SingleFile for similar functionality.

Dont know if they removed it or not, have been using google chrome mostly before switching to Firefox.

[–] Auster@thebrainbin.org 3 points 2 weeks ago

Link: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/single-file/

Downside: user needs to keep track of the downloaded files manually.

Unrelated upside: it preserves context better than printing a page to PDF.

[–] rageAgainstCages@crazypeople.online 2 points 1 week ago

I use SingleFile quite often. But it does not exactly provide the functionality I described.

It would be useful to tag a bookmarked page for offline access. That should simply be a toggle. The bookmark page would then be the UI for organising and controlling the offline content. From there, if I want a page to be organised in my file structure where it would then be reachable by other browsers, it would be useful to SingleFile offline pages while offline.