[4] ✪ General Tips and Tricks

[Vincent_Tang]

@ruud

You can verify/test what/how SingleFile saves a page by saving a copy, then disconnecting from the internet and loading the saved page.

I just look at the URL of chrome, it shows up as a local address on my PC, no need to disconnect from internet

@ruud

An MHTML file is essentially a ZIP file. It contains the HTML page and all the files linked in it.

ah okay, so if I save a MHTML file, there’s no encoding, and I can just unzip the file and would get image assets + HTML file?

@ruud

If you want to save a page including assests, and would want animated GIFs to stay animated, a better option is to save the page the normal way with your browser, opting for Save Complete Page.

what’s the advantages and disadvantages of this vs SingleFile? Save complete page… its only 231 kb vs 27,000 kb with singlefile

both show animated gifs… unless save complete page is not saving the image assets, and only the links to it?

I will turn off my internet to check on this

EDIT

I don’t see how chromes “Save complete page” is only 231 kb… when I have an image asset gif on the page that’s 250kb

Is chrome simply just referencing my "appdata\local" folder then for image assets? So its not a full complete backup, because if I sent that HTML file (the 231 kb) to another PC, my assumption is all the image links would be broken