FF - Saving pages - how to insert <!-- saved from url=...

[Chupo]

Is it possible to automatically insert a '<!-- saved from url=...'-like comment inside the saved page (IE does that)? I know the Scrapbook extension, but I have to be able to open my saved pages from the USB stick, often with alternate browsers on other PCs, so I would appreciate the file structure/names preserved and the URL inserted inside the saved .html.

[Unarmed]

No, that’s <a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=125729" title="Bug 125729 - When saving page, add source URL address as comment ('saved from ...') [Save As, Save Page As]">bug 125729</a>.

[Grist]

This extension inserts a comment with the current page address into the DOM:

The comment should be present in any page saved as "Web Page - Complete".

Compiled from a simple Greasemonkey script:

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// ==UserScript==
// @name           Saved from URL Comment
// @description    Inserts an HTML comment with the current document address.
// @include        *
// ==/UserScript==

var urlComment = document.createComment(' Saved from URL = ' + document.location.href + ' ');

document.insertBefore(urlComment, document.firstChild);

[Chupo]

Thank you very much (both of you)! I am going to read about the bug in detalis. Meanwhile, the SavedFromUrl extension works fine FF is going to become my defoult browser!

Cheers!

[Chupo]

defoult browser

Default, I meant

[Grist]

Works with 1.5 - 2.0.
Update:
<a href="http://dourob8.100webspace.net/extensions/SavedFromUrl1.4.xpi">http://dourob8.100webspace.net/extensions/SavedFromUrl1.4.xpi</a>

I did away with the compiled user script and built the extension from scratch. It only inserts the comment when "Save Page As" is used. Also added the date and time to the comment:

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Saved from:
 http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=471634

 on:
 Fri Oct 06 2006 14:48:28 GMT-0400 (Eastern Standard Time)

• 1.4 - No longer removes pre-existing comments that exist at the top of the document.
• 1.3 - Works with frame pages.

[Chupo]

Hi again

it's been a few years!! since I started this thread and you posted me your SavedFromUrl extension. I still have two versions in a folder:

SavedFromUrl.xpi (6. Oct 2006, 1:30:30) and
SavedFromUrl1.2.xpi (7. Oct 2006, 12:01:46)

I am not sure why I don't have v1.4 and how did I get v1.2 (maybe you posted 1.2 the next day after the first version). In fact I didn't remember about this thread anymore and I've found it again searching for the extension update!!

As you can guess, I have only now updated to FF3.6 so I can't use SavedFromUrl anymore I was looking thru FF's official addons but did't find the extension so I had to install FF2.0.0.20 portable to be able to install your extension one more time to see the about screen and find out your name Only then I've, after a long time, found this very thread again and seen my nick. It was a double surprise - first I didn't remember about the thread and now I can't believe how much time has passed since then.

Did you maybe make an update that works with FF3.6 in the meanwhile?

Regards,

[dickvl]

Here is a bumped version of SavedFromUrl1.4.xpi (copy & paste full code in the location bar and save as SavedFromUrl1.4.xpi)

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data:application/octet-stream;base64,
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[Chupo]

Here is a bumped version of SavedFromUrl1.4.xpi with a maxVersion of 3.* (copy & paste in the location and save as SavedFromUrl1.4.xpi)

What do you mean by 'paste in the location'? I've tried to decode the attachment with online base64 decoder but there was an error: 'Invalid character in a Base-64 string.'.

[dickvl]

If you use an online decoder then you need to omit the leading data part. Not all online decoders may like the line breaks in the code.
You can copy and paste the full code, including the data descriptor, to the location (address) bar and press the Enter key, just like you open a website and Firefox should offer to save the file.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data:_URI_scheme

[Chupo]

Thank you very much!! Works like a charm

I didn't know that MIME encoded content could be pasted into the address bar and didn't realize that 'location' refers to 'location bar'. The name after saving was B2k+NTe1.part and the next time 2izQbFXS.part so I assume FF always chooses the random name when saving the URI scheme data.

Is this extension open source? It would be nice to be able to edit the insertion scheme. Why this extension doesn't have a web page so it could be found thru add-ons search?

ps
Do you maybe know if there's an extension to search bookmarks by the description (FF3.6 comaptible)? I was using Enhanced Bookmark Search extension in FF2.x.x.x but now I can't find a way to search bookmark descriptions anymore :-/

[Platon_]

Removed I was suggesting the same obsolete extension.

[dickvl]

You can easily open the extensions .xpi file and make the edits in SavedFromUrl1.4.xpi/chrome/content/overlay.xul
XPI files are regular ZIP archives.

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var comment = d.createComment(' Saved from:\n ' + d.location.href + '\n\n on:\n ' + Date() + '\n');

[Chupo]

Thanx! Now I remember I had even examined 'Save From URL' back in 2006!! but I forgot the .xpi <=> .zip :-/

[ake79]

I made version that supports Save File to at vic123's request.

It's somewhat modified version but still does the same thing. Basically I just moved the comment adding a bit later so Save File to catches it. Should work.

Like dickvl's version before, copy & paste into the location bar, save as .xpi file and drag & drop to ff window to install.

Saved From URL 1.4.20101206:

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data:application/zip;base64,
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