SoftwareFilter: help me find a good way to view Firefox pages offline for MacOSX.

December 31, 2006 12:58 PM

SoftwareFilter: help me find a good way to view Firefox pages offline for MacOSX.

Hi folks,

A long time ago, I used a great Mac app called Netscape History (which sadly I can't find - it was back in the day when people used Navigator). It was a handy application - it would download pages for offline viewing using a page's cache. Is there an equivalent of something now for MacOSX and Firefox that people use? This question previously kind of addressed the same problem, but again I'm looking for an automated thing for MacOS.

I'm trying out the DownThemAll extension, and it's handy, but not exactly what I'm looking for - I'd like an app that would automatically save the HTMLs and images from, let's say, x number of days. I've also got the Work Offline extension, and use that to browse through my history, but I'd really like an actual separate application that does this automatically, if possible. Sometimes the Work Offline extension works for some sites, sometimes not for others.

Any ideas? This is probably a pretty easy problem to solve - I'm obviously overlooking something here, so I appreciate the help.

Thanks!

posted by rmm to technology (5 comments total)

I'm not 100% sure what you're asking for here. I get that you're looking for an external program to download a webpage for offline browsing, but I don't follow this part:

I'd like an app that would automatically save the HTMLs and images from, let's say, x number of days.

Where do the days fit in?

As a sort of meta-answer, might I suggest iUseThis. I did a search for 'offline' and found one program that might fit your needs.
posted by Rictic at 3:31 PM on December 31, 2006

Am I wrong, or would the concept of RSS feeds and of a RSS reader like NetNewsWire fulfill — kinda — what you're looking for?
posted by WCityMike at 9:36 AM on January 1, 2007

Sounds like the Scrapbook extension for Firefox might be what you're looking for.
posted by 31d1 at 4:15 PM on January 1, 2007

Well, actually Scrapbook is a wierd extension that uses other extensions as add-ons, so you'd want to use it with the auto-save add-on.
posted by 31d1 at 4:23 PM on January 1, 2007

thanks for the suggestions folks - I'll try what people have suggested and report back to basecamp.

WCityMike, I have a RSS feedreader (Bloglines is pretty good) but sometimes I come across pages that don't have RSS feeds, so I'd like to have a history of what I've visited.

Rictic, I meant 'days' as in 'this application would save a number of day's visits' - I think the Netscape History app would let you view up to 4 days of web sites at a time. At this point, I'd settle for something half way decent.
posted by rmm at 7:07 AM on January 2, 2007