553394 - Save a webpage/ export

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 113231

(Firefox :: General, enhancement)

Description

[ametedinov]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)

Currently, one can only save a webpage in an HTML format, and in many cases that is not convenient. It would be better if a webpage could be saved / exported to some other format like PDF, PNG, JPG, or some similar (image/document) format. 

If one has a pdf printer he/she can print the webpage as pdf, but that is very inconvenient for distrohoppers. If an export feature is implemented into Firefox, then no workarounds will be necessary. One can just go to File > Save as > and choose the format (or perhaps File > Export to )

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

exporting as PDF is bug 162659
exporting as an image is bug 113231

Comment 2

[ametedinov]

Thanks for the reply, but I still think this bug report is not that much related to any of the two bugs you posted. So far, you cannot save a web page in any other format except the standard HTML (including the .js and .css files of course). Therefore, I suggest AT LEAST ONE ALTERNATIVE to be added. I am not really concerned whether it is PDF, ABW, JPEG, ODT, OTT, or whatever. I just ask for an alternative mehtod to save a webpage.

Comment 3

[Jo Hermans]

Read bug 113231 (all the comments). From the title it looks like a print-to-file request, but it's really html-to-image-to-file. Since cairo is used as the image library nowadays, pdf is just another image output format (it isn't, but that's the way printing works). ODT would be something completely different, since it's a text format.