Some tricks and traps:
- Forums need a ‘Next’ link or PageZipper will not work. Many do, some do not.
- Collecting pages is not completly automatic. You have to scroll down the page until the page counter (like 5/6) shows the correct number. Or click the PageZip next button to step forward through the pages.
- On a few forums PageZipper tends to ‘overshoot’ and show more pages than there are. I do not know why. CPF is one.
- In very long threads (my feeling is it starts at 40 pages) sometimes PageZipper (in FF) leaves single pages empty. Try again tomorrow.
- Switch off PageZipper when it is done so it will not show on the saved page.
- Nuke Anything Enhanced shows a frame around the element that it will delete if you hover the mouse over it for a second. I found that feature accidentally after months of use. (Real men do not read manuals.)
- Click to remove elements is handy to kill advertising even when just browsing webpages.
- Pictures that cannot be saved by hand (like the ones still working on Photobucket) cannot be saved by PageZipper in Firefox but in Chrome. Firefox tries to reload all pictures to save them and Photobucket will not allow direct downloads (they send HTML code instead).
- Chrome saves pictures directly from cache. Much faster and no surprises.
- In MHTML files media files are encoded as MIME base 64. I have not tried it but there should be tools to extract single files or even modify the main HTML file.
Update: ’Save As MHT’ works much better than ’Save As MHTML’. It saves long filenames and avoids the security warnung for this file extension by using capital letters.- Chrome is much faster than Firefox and rock solid. I tested it on the ‘What did you mod today?’ thread with almost 3250 posts. The saved file is 1.1 GB. Found no browser that can open it…
Here is a tough test thread: Review: Convoy S2+ (the red one!) – Fantastic 18650 EDC