Firefox Add-On recommendation for “Save Complete Page As”
A useful web-tier debugging technique is to take a snapshot of a given page (i.e., saving the HTML and Javascript and CSS and images locally, serving them up w/ your local webserver) as this facilitates very rapid test and iterate cycles. However, properly saving the full set of files is something at which vanilla Firefox, well, sucks. Enter the “Save Complete Page As” add-on. Its dependency checking is much more robust, and the local snapshot you download is much much more likely to look and behave the same as the real thing.
For example for the Upromise visitor home page, the built-in FF “Save Page As” option resulted in an ugly, incomplete mess consisting of 20 files. The add-on “Save Complete Page As” option resulted in a perfect copy consisting of 95 files. (The performance issues of a page which requires 95 files is another story… but it illustrates the huge difference.)
This add-on is configurable too, e.g. to save iframes and even to try and correct links (which feature I can’t vouch for.)
Anyway webdev and QA types may get some mileage out of this one.
Cheers
