Mozilla Archive Format, with MHT and Faithful Save Version History

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Version 2.0.1.1-signed 502.0 KiB Works with Firefox 3.6 - 8.*, SeaMonkey 2.1 - 2.3.*

Mozilla Archive Format 2.0 provides several major enhancements over the previous versions.

– Pages are saved instantly and can be much smaller, because hidden content that is not needed to display the current state of the page is not downloaded anymore. For this feature to work, the option to take a faithful snapshot of the page must be selected, which is the default.

– It is now possible to verify that all content has been saved, because images and other content that could not be saved are not connected to their original location anymore, leading to truly offline archives. For this feature to work, the option to take a faithful snapshot of the page must be selected.

– A notification bar with information about the original save date and location is now displayed for all archived pages.

– Updating to the new version can resolve problems caused by internal settings customized in previous versions, because they are reset to their default value. There is usually no need to customize those settings anymore.

Version 2.0 includes many other improvements and bug fixes. You can find the full list of changes and known issues on the official site: http://maf.mozdev.org/

Version 2.0.0.1-signed 502.0 KiB Works with Firefox 3.6 - 7.*, SeaMonkey 2.1 - 2.3.*

Mozilla Archive Format 2.0 provides several major enhancements over the previous versions.

– Pages are saved instantly and can be much smaller, because hidden content that is not needed to display the current state of the page is not downloaded anymore. For this feature to work, the option to take a faithful snapshot of the page must be selected, which is the default.

– It is now possible to verify that all content has been saved, because images and other content that could not be saved are not connected to their original location anymore, leading to truly offline archives. For this feature to work, the option to take a faithful snapshot of the page must be selected.

– A notification bar with information about the original save date and location is now displayed for all archived pages.

– Updating to the new version can resolve problems caused by internal settings customized in previous versions, because they are reset to their default value. There is usually no need to customize those settings anymore.

Version 2.0 includes many other improvements and bug fixes. You can find the full list of changes and known issues on the official site: http://maf.mozdev.org/

Version 1.0.0.1-signed 499.0 KiB Works with Firefox 3.0 - 7.*, SeaMonkey 2.0 - 2.3.*

Mozilla Archive Format 1.0 introduces several improvements and changes over the previous versions.

– Compatibility with the latest versions of Firefox and SeaMonkey.
– MAFF archives are now generated and read with stricter compliance to the MAFF specification draft, improving compatibility with other applications.
– The default visibility and layout of the menu items has changed, and the Save Page In Archive menu item is visible by default. The previous layout can be restored from the preferences dialog.
– The welcome dialog has been replaced by a welcome page that is opened in a browser tab. The welcome page is only shown when installing for the first time or when upgrading from the 0.x to the 1.x series. On Windows, file associations can be controlled directly from the welcome page.
– The preferences dialog has been simplified. The default configuration now covers all the common use cases, and advanced settings can be changed from the about:config page.
– In SeaMonkey, the save commands do not prompt for the file name anymore when the related global preference is set.

Version 1.0 includes many other improvements and bug fixes. You can find the full list of changes and known issues on the official site: http://maf.mozdev.org/

Version 0.19.7 415.0 KiB Works with Firefox 3.0 - 3.6.*, SeaMonkey 2.0 - 2.0.*

MAF 0.19.7 has the following user-visible improvements over MAF 0.19.5:
* Change: Improved compatibility with other extensions that used internal functions of the browser's save system directly.
* Fix: For some MHTML files created with other browsers, the first image or other resource in the page was shown instead of the main document.

You can find the full changelog and the list of known issues on the official site: http://maf.mozdev.org/

Version 0.19.5 387.0 KiB Works with Firefox 3.0 - 3.6.*, SeaMonkey 2.0 - 2.0.*

MAF 0.19.5 has the following user-visible improvements over MAF 0.19.3:
* Fix: Some systems where MAF 0.7.1 or an earlier version was installed once were still affected by the inability to open any MAFF archive.
* Fix: An error occurred when saving pages containing inner frames referencing images or other resources not of a document type.
* Fix: When saving the contents of "textarea" elements, sometimes unexpected line breaks were introduced.

You can find the full changelog and the list of known issues on the official site: http://maf.mozdev.org/

Version 0.19.3 387.0 KiB Works with Firefox 3.0 - 3.6.*, SeaMonkey 2.0 - 2.0.*

MAF 0.19.3 has the following user-visible improvements over MAF 0.18.3:
* Compatibility with SeaMonkey 2.0.
* MHTML and MAFF archives can now be viewed directly from remote locations, unless Private Browsing Mode is active, in which case the archive must be downloaded locally first.
* MHTML files saved in a non-standard format by the Opera web browser are now opened correctly.
* The last directory selected for saving a web page in an archive is not remembered while Private Browsing Mode is active.
* Saving a single page in an archive now works correctly even if the original page is closed before the save operation is completed.
* The correct content is now displayed when a local archive is replaced with another saved page.
* Now the Saved Pages Conversion Wizard propagates the modification time of the original files to the destination files.
* The welcome dialog does not block startup anymore.
* The integrated Save Complete component is now able to save XHTML documents served with a content type of application/xhtml+xml.

You can find the full changelog and the list of known issues on the official site: http://maf.mozdev.org/

Version 0.18.3 369.0 KiB Works with Firefox 3.0 - 3.6.*

MAF 0.18.3 has the following user-visible improvements over MAF 0.18.2:
* Fix: When saving a web page, the suggested file name in the "Save As" dialog could contain an extension that caused the page to be saved as a different file type, including executable types.

You can find the full changelog and the list of known issues on the official site: http://maf.mozdev.org/

Version 0.18.2 369.0 KiB Works with Firefox 3.0 - 3.6.*

NEW "FAITHFUL SAVE" COMPONENT


This version greatly improves the fidelity of the archived pages, thanks to a new save component that takes a faithful snapshot of the page exactly as it appears at the time it is saved.

With this component, you can create MAFF archives and MHT files that are both accurate and fully compatible with other browsers.

The new save component is activated automatically if Save Complete was selected in a previous version. Save Complete is still available and can be reactivated from the preferences.

You can find the full documentation and changelog on the extension's home page: http://maf.mozdev.org/

Version 0.17.2 328.0 KiB Works with Firefox 3.0 - 3.6.*

MAF 0.17.2 has the following user-visible improvements over MAF 0.16.4:
* Now the Save All Tabs As menu command works again, while previously only the Save Tabs As command worked for saving all tabs.
* The integrated Save Complete component is now able to save web pages in some cases where it previously failed.
* Improved performance of MHTML extraction.
* MHTML compatibility improvements:
o Pages generated by other browsers now always open correctly even if they contain multiple frames.
o The original page title stored inside MHTML files is now compatible with other browsers, even when it contains international characters.
o Images and other content that are not available in the archive are retrieved from their original location if possible.
o General compatibility improvements, supporting MHTML files generated by a wider range of applications.

You can find the full changelog and the list of known issues on the official site: http://maf.mozdev.org/

Version 0.16.4 317.0 KiB Works with Firefox 3.0 - 3.6.*

MAF 0.16.4 has the following user-visible improvements over MAF 0.15.1:

* Fixed severe MHTML creation problem that occurred with Firefox in some languages other than English.
* A new dialog for batch conversion of previously saved pages is now available. See the related documentation on http://maf.mozdev.org/ for details.
* New preference to use the page title instead of the default suggested file name in the "Save As" dialog. Enabling this preference provides functionality comparable to the File Title and Title Save extensions.
* The order of the tabs is now preserved when opening and saving multi-page MAFF archives.
* Now the character set specified in MAFF archives is always enforced, and a different character set cannot be selected.
* In the multiple tab selection dialog, occasionally it was not possible to change the current selection after some time passed.
* Improvements to the integrated Save Complete extension:
o Improved performance when saving pages containing many images or other content.
o Improved reliability in handling references to images or other content.
o Errors that occur while downloading the main file are now reported correctly.
o Pages that are contained in an archive are now saved correctly.
o When the save operation fails, an empty file isn't created anymore in place of the target file.

MAF 0.16.4 has the following known issues:

* In order to open MHTML files when the IE Tab extension is installed, the filter /^file:\/\/\/.*\.(mht|mhtml)$/ must be disabled from the IE Tab options.
* The Download Sort extension has a known incompatibility with MAF. The conflict cannot be resolved without proper modifications to both extensions, and Download Sort is not actively maintained at this time.
* When saving a page in an archive fails, retrying the download from the Downloads window does not achieve the expected result.
* Opening very long documents contained inside MHTML files may cause the browser to stop responding temporarily.
* With versions of Firefox prior to 3.5.3, web archive files must have a lowercase file name extension in order to be opened.

Version 0.15.1 259.0 KiB Works with Firefox 3.0 - 3.5.*

MAF 0.15.1 has the following user-visible improvements over MAF 0.14.3:

* An icon in the address bar or in the status bar provides quick access to the original location from which an archived page was saved, as well as the date of the save operation.
* In the "Save As" dialog on Windows, the default file extension is now omitted from the suggested file name when saving. In most cases, this prevents double extensions from appearing in the names of the saved archives.
* It is now possible to configure MAF to open MAFF archives without extracting their contents to the temporary directory, thus obtaining a significant speed gain.
* Now the Preferences menu items and button bring the dialog to front if it is already open.
* In the file selection dialog of the Save In Archive commands, now the default extension for "All Files" is set appropriately on Windows.
* An error occurred when opening for the first time any archived page with no information on the original location the page was saved from.
* Improvements to the integrated Save Complete extension:
o When saving a complete web page outside of an archive, now the name of the directory containing the additional files is properly localized.
o Now the length of the names of the additional saved files is limited to 50 characters, to prevent problems when saving or when extracting archives on some file systems.
o Now pages are saved as they appear, without fetching them again from the server, in all the cases where it is possible. This may speed up saving web pages with highly dynamic content.

MAF 0.15.1 has the following known issues:

* In order to open MHTML files when the IE Tab extension is installed, the filter /^file:\/\/\/.*\.(mht|mhtml)$/ must be disabled from the IE Tab options.
* The Download Sort extension has a known incompatibility with MAF. The conflict cannot be resolved without proper modifications to both extensions, and Download Sort is not actively maintained at this time.
* When saving a page in an archive fails, retrying the download from the Downloads window does not achieve the expected result.
* Opening very long documents contained inside MHTML files may cause the browser to stop responding temporarily.
* With versions of Firefox prior to 3.5.3, web archive files files must have a lowercase file name extension in order to be opened.

Version 0.14.3 237.0 KiB Works with Firefox 3.0 - 3.5.*

MAF 0.14.3 has the following user-visible improvements over MAF 0.13.4:

* Support for saving media files referenced by HTML 5 video and audio elements in MAFF archives.
* Support for creating MHTML files that are 100% compatible with Internet Explorer and other browsers.
* Support for saving pages contained inside inner frames.
* Much improved rendering of MHTML files generated by other browsers.
* Web addresses displayed in the Archives dialog are now decoded.
* More robust cleanup of the temporary directory on shutdown.
* Less chance of compatibility problems with other extensions.

MAF 0.14.3 has the following known issues:

* Files with uppercase extensions (for example .MHT) cannot be opened. To solve the problem, the file extension has to be renamed to lowercase (for example .mht).
* When saving a page in an archive fails, retrying the download from the Downloads window does not achieve the expected result.
* Opening very long documents contained inside MHTML files may cause the browser to stop responding temporarily.

Version 0.13.4 215.0 KiB Works with Firefox 3.0 - 3.5.*

MAF 0.13.3 has the following user-visible improvements over MAF 0.12.3:

* A welcome dialog is now displayed after the first installation.
* Now the first entry of an archive is displayed correctly even if it is not a web page, but for instance an image.
* Multiple pages in a single MAFF archive are now displayed in tabs only the first time the archive is opened, not at every refresh.
* If the browser is closed and reopened while preserving the open tabs, pages in multi-page archives are now displayed correctly.
* Minor MHTML compatibility and performance improvements.
* Redesigned the window that provides details on the open archives:
o The window can be kept open in the background while browsing.
o The list of archives can be sorted by any column.
o Ability to reopen the local archive address, original location, temporary local address, or jar: address of all pages.
o Ability to open links in new windows or new tabs.
o Ability to copy the original page addresses to the clipboard.
o Button to add multiple archives to the list at once, without opening them in browser windows. This replaces the now removed "open action" preference.
o Dates are properly localized.

MAF 0.13.3 has the following known issues:

* When saving a page in an archive fails, retrying the download from the Downloads window does not achieve the expected result.

Version 0.12.2 184.0 KiB Works with Firefox 3.0 - 3.5.*

MAF 0.12.2 has the following user-visible improvements over MAF 0.11.2:

* Opening and creating MHTML files is now up to 200 times faster.
* Ability to convert previously saved complete HTML pages to MAFF or MHTML, without losing the original information stored by the browser.
* Improved internationalization and optimized metadata handling.
* The multiple tab selection dialog now allows sorting by title or location.
* Bugfixes:
o When creating MHTML archives, MAF sometimes failed to encode files larger than 10 KiB properly.
o Attempting to overwrite an existing MHTML archive would not achieve the expected result.
o The file selection dialog allowed MAFF archives to be saved with an MHTML file extension.
o Under unusual circumstances, MAF could fail to open any MAFF or MHTML archive.

MAF 0.12.2 has the following known issues:

* If the first entry of an archive is not a web page, but for instance an image, it cannot be displayed when opening the archive normally.
* If an archive contains multiple pages, refreshing the tab displaying the first one may cause the other pages to be opened again in new tabs.
* When saving a page in an archive fails, retrying the download from the Downloads window does not achieve the expected result.

Version 0.11.3 165.0 KiB Works with Firefox 3.0 - 3.0.*

MAF 0.11.3 has the following user-visible improvements over MAF 0.10.0:

* The integrated Save Complete extension has been updated to version 1.0.1pre.
* Improvements in Save Complete 1.0.0:
o Relative links in the page being saved are now converted to absolute links.
o Scripts and stylesheets referenced inside Internet Explorer conditional comments are now saved.
o Fixed some minor parsing bugs.
o Improved parser performance.
* Improvements in Save Complete 1.0.1pre:
o The download progress bar does not hang anymore in case of network errors or problems with the page being saved.
o More detailed error reporting if the download operation fails.
o If some of the content embedded in the page is not available, the download does not fail anymore, but a warning is reported.
* Fix: Images or other binary content could be missing from web archives created using the Save Complete component.
* Fix: Under rare circumstances, a save operation could fail just after file selection, reporting the error "aFpP.saveBehavior is undefined".
* Fix: MHTML files created by Opera couldn't be opened. Now MHTML files having no quotes around the boundary parameter in the Content-Type header can be opened correctly.

MAF 0.11.3 has the following known issues:

* If the first entry of an archive is not a web page, but for instance an image, it cannot be displayed when opening the archive normally.
* If an archive contains multiple pages, refreshing the tab displaying the first one may cause the other pages to be opened again in new tabs.
* When saving a page in an archive fails, retrying the download from the Downloads window does not achieve the expected result.

Version 0.10.0 164.0 KiB Works with Firefox 3.0 - 3.0.*

MAF 0.10.0 has the following user-visible improvements over MAF 0.9.1:

* Integration with the Multiple Tab Handler extension.
* Now a single frame can be saved in an archive, and in this case the extended metadata is not included.
* New preference to use the jar: protocol to access additional pages when opening multi-page MAFF archives.
* Modified user interface elements:
o The default visibility and layout of the MAF menu items has changed, and is now customizable from the preferences dialog.
o The tab selection dialog displayed on save has changed, and the current tab is now preselected.
o A single file filter is present for the MHTML file format in the "Save As" dialog, and the default extension is a user preference.
o The window with the progress bar shown when opening archives does not appear anymore.
* Removed elements:
o MAF internal save component, superseded by the integrated Save Complete extension.
* Bugfixes:
o Removed a half-second pause when opening archives.

MAF 0.10.0 has the following known issues:

* If the first entry of an archive is not a web page, but for instance an image, it cannot be displayed when opening the archive normally.
* If an archive contains multiple pages, refreshing the tab displaying the first one may cause the other pages to be opened again in new tabs.
* When saving a page in an archive fails, retrying the download from the Downloads window does not achieve the expected result.
* The Save Complete component doesn't always work when saving multiple tabs in an archive.

Version 0.6.3 544.0 KiB Works with Firefox 1.5 - 1.5.0.*

Although should work with FF1.0+ only tested with 1.5.

Version 0.6.2 185.0 KiB Works with Firefox 0.9 - 1.0+

Version 0.4.3 255.0 KiB Works with Firefox 0.9 - 1.0

Version 0.4.2 243.0 KiB Works with Firefox 0.9 - 0.10+

Version 0.3.0 194.0 KiB Works with Firefox 0.8 - 0.9