461246 - support for Safari web archive (.webarchive) format in Firefox

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Firefox :: File Handling, enhancement)

Description

[Lorenzo Orlandi]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; it; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092414 Firefox/3.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; it; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092414 Firefox/3.0.3

Since one of Firefox 3 goals is to better integrate the browser into the OS, I believe that Firefox 3 for Mac should be able to open(/save?) Safari .webarchive file format introduced with Safari 2.0

Safari .webarchive format embed a whole rich webpage into one file, making it really smarter than the standard html+folder. this should be, if not the default format, at least supported by FF3 on Mac platform!
as a side note, other Mac-specific browsers like iCab and Sunrise support webarchive format, so it shouldn't be that hard to implement...

Reproducible: Always




webarchive file format description from Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webarchive

Comment 1

[Jesse Ruderman]

There's already a Camino bug on this (bug 294105).  It seems to me that it should be a Core feature...

Comment 2

[Lorenzo Orlandi]

yep I know, I thought it would be nice to have a FF-specific bug though, since core changes happens to Firefox before than Camino ;)
(and the camino bug seem to be dead from years)

Comment 3

[John McCormick [:JohnBoyTheGreat]]

I agree...except I hate everything Apple, especially Macs (which aren't real computers), so my interest is that everyone ought to be able to open archived web pages saved in all the most popular page/site archiving formats on Firefox.

Archiving web pages is a common task for many users today, which cannot be done effectively with Firefox without: (a) Some technical expertise, and (b) Firefox extensions.

Firefox should support (at least the first three):

(1) MAFF -- Mozilla Archive Format, which was created by Mozilla, so should be at the top of the list.
(2) MHTML/MHT -- Included in all major web browsers except Firefox and Safari (and I don't count Safari).
(3) Webarchive -- Used in the Safari browser.
(4) WARC -- Internet Archive's Web ARChive format, for entire sites. This format would be useful and could be used for archiving tab sets as well.
(5) HTMLD -- HTML Directory, also useful for site archiving like (4) above.