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Add-On Allows Firefox Browser Users to Maintain an Archive of Web Pages



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Add-On Allows Firefox Browser Users to Maintain an Archive of Web Pages

THOMAS J. FITZGERALD

Published: April 7, 2005

Web site content often changes, moves or disappears, but archiving tools can help you save and manage collections of Web pages that you want to keep permanently or peruse offline.

ScrapBook, a free add-on to the Firefox browser (which is available as a download at www.mozilla.org), lets you archive Web pages about as simply as creating bookmarks.

The program opens a pane along the left side of the browser; you can drag pages into it or capture them with a couple of mouse clicks.

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The archived pages can be organized in folders, viewed offline and edited with tools that may be useful to researchers, like a yellow highlighter and an in-line commenter for adding notes to selected areas. The pages are saved in HTML format; they retain links and other qualities of Web pages.

ScrapBook (amb.vis.ne.jp/mozilla/scrapbook) is one of an assortment of free add-ons, or extensions, for Firefox, a free open-source browser that has gained popularity as an alternative to Internet Explorer. It is available for Windows, Mac and Linux computers. THOMAS J. FITZGERALD


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