This thread ends in a very weird way, It kind of boils down to what I think is the real problem, but I still appreciate any ideas and suggestions if you have other ideas.
My current system:
Firefox Quantum 64.0 (64-bit), Mozilla Firefox for Ubuntu, Canonical 1.0
OS: Linux Lite 4.2 (Ubuntu 18.04)
HW: Anchient laptop "Dell Latitude D620", upgraded to 3GB RAM, otherwise all the original components (yes, it's actualy good enough for web browsing)
Thing is
I have the habit of storing web pages as local text file. This is a way that have worked well for me - because I can do very fast file search, and every url link is also preserved and therefore searchable - as well as other things that I benefit from, including the fact that txt files consumes very little space.
Problem is
Whenever I save a web page, and choose text (instead of HTML, HTML full page, etc) - and even if I manually give the file name a ".txt" ending (in the "file save as" dialog box), the end result is excactly the same as If I choosed "Web page, complete" - except that the file extension is txt.
Expected result: A local txt file, stripped for all html tags and script lines. No other files or folders in same directory.
Actual result: The file is saved with the filename that I manually gives it. When opening the text file in a text editor, it have all the html tags still there.
And there is a folder with same name as the files that holds some scripts and image files.
Really dumb thing happens right now
While typing the above text, I was having a try just to verify the naming scheme of the alongside folder to a saved file. But - suddenly I cannot reproduce the behaviour, problem seems to be solved by itself.
A little bit confused right now, but when thinking about it, there is one strange common thing with another problem I have had - it is that just some minutes after I observed the problem, the laptop (old Dell Latitude D620) cut power, probably because of overheating (too close a hot owen).
So the theory here is that back in windows xp days, the drivers had a threshold for maximum operating temperature on cpu (or some other temp sensor onboard) while Ubuntu allows the CPU to heat up until the hardware protection circuits kick in and kill the system - and the system will malfunction slightly minutes before this occurs.
The other things I wonder may cause the non-reproduceable behaviour is (I don't know this, just gut feeling):
- The themes for this specific distro. Yes - it have some 50'ish different color themes, and in some of the themes different input fields in various dialog boxes seems to operate differently, or in some cases not be able to select.
- If Firefox itself is somehow aware on the location the files is saved at. That is - would it behave different if I choose to save in "download" folder instead of "pictures" folder.
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