How to download and save web pages for offline viewing using Firefox
Save a Web page for offline viewing is a great way to combat network problems if you want to display particular information in remote areas or for other purposes. Today, we will look at several ways to save web pages for offline viewing in Mozilla Firefox.
Yes, it is possible to easily mark bookmark pages, but that does not mean that these pages can be viewed offline, because bookmarks do not work that way. You will still need a connection when you need to view marked web pages, which can be problematic in some cases.
So, what are we doing then, is such a situation? Before you get this problem, make sure you follow the steps below to save web pages for offline viewing. As mentioned earlier, we will be focusing on Mozilla Firefox today, mainly because Mozilla has updated the web browser to be more privacy-conscious than Google Chrome and others.
Save a web page in Firefox for offline viewing
To learn how to save Web pages for offline reading using Firefox on Windows, you have the following three options:
- Save the page as an HTML file
- Save the page as an image file
- Save the page as a PDF.
Let us go into this in more detail.
1) Save the webpage as an HTML file
OK, then to save the page as an HTML file, we recommend that you click on the menu button located in the upper right corner of the browser. From there, select Save Page As to save the Web page as an HTML file for future reference.
You can also press CTRL + S or right-click on the Web page and select Save Page As. There are so many options to choose from, it's crazy, so choose the one that's right for you.
2) Saving the page as an image file
Mozilla Firefox should have its own screen capture extension called Easy capture. If this is not the case, we suggest that you install it from the add-in shop, as it works very well. After installation, click on the icon from the icon and select the option titled Capture Whole Web Page
Alternatively, the user can simply right-click on the page and select Take Screen Capture from the menu.
3) Save the page in PDF
The last step is to save the page in PDF format for future reference. We can do this by clicking the menu button in Firefox, then select the option that says Print.
Then click on Print in the upper left corner and select Microsoft Print to PDF, press Print, then save the document to your hard drive, and that's it.
We hope you find this message useful.