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Mozilla's "Pick of the Month" for May 2015.

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Saves selected text to a file (in any directory or defaulting to the user's Download directory).
After highlighting some text, right-click and select "Save Text to File".
File names have the format "userPreference--<timestamp>.txt"

Features:
- Specify any directory if the host application is also installed
- Add date of timestamp to saved file name
- Prefix filename with page title
- Various date formats to choose from
- Save current URL in file
- Show directory selection dialog on save
- Keyboard shortcut, Ctrl+Shift+Y

Open source:
Released under GNU GPL v3 license ..
https://github.com/bobbyrne01/save-text-to-file-firefox

Pre web extension api migration
If you have Firefox 19.0 to Firefox 56.0, use this release:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/save-text-to-file/versions/?page=1#version-2.7.3

Pre addon SDK migration
If you have Firefox 2.0 to Firefox 19.0, use this release:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/save-text-to-file/versions/?page=1#version-1.1.5

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Release notes for 4.0.0

Users can now specify which directory to save text files in. The additional feature is available when the native messaging application is installed alongside the web extension.

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