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is there a chance to use MAFF as one standard file format to save web pages?

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joetux
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Due to the discontinued support of MAFF as one of the popular extension to firefox and as being one favourite method of saving web content as SINGLE FILE -- other formats messes up the local drive with a bunch of files -- i'd like to ask mozilla to take this format over as 0ne of the standard part of the implementation. There is one more single file format: *.war ; which is limited to KDE Linux enviromnent. In contrast MAFF was available on all platforms on which firefox is available.

Due to the discontinued support of MAFF as one of the popular extension to firefox and as being one favourite method of saving web content as SINGLE FILE -- other formats messes up the local drive with a bunch of files -- i'd like to ask mozilla to take this format over as 0ne of the standard part of the implementation. There is one more single file format: *.war ; which is limited to KDE Linux enviromnent. In contrast MAFF was available on all platforms on which firefox is available.

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WestEnd
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Beyond the standard FF storage file format you will have to find 3rd party Addon to do what your asking. And you should also ask the Addon creator why they didn't update so it works in latest FF.

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I doubt if Mozilla would ever consider having MAFF as a standard part of Firefox; not a "standard format" as it was created for one purpose by a Firefox extension developer and not used for any other purpose - to my knowledge.

And similar to MAFF is the MHTML format for saving complete web pages. MHTML is a lot more widely used and was / is used by other web browsers. And at least it was a proposed as a "standard" to IETF all the way back in 1999. https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2557 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MHTML IMO, at lot closer than MAFF to ever being supported by Mozilla.

Mozilla doesn't adopt formats that aren't an actual "standard" format, thus MHTML never "made the cut" with Mozilla.

Personally, I am keeping an older Portable Firefox ESR 52 version installed so I can read my saved MHTML and MAFF files using both the UnMHT and MAFF extensions.

As far as the future, I haven't yet decided what format I will be saving complete web pages - but for now I just open a web page in that Portable Firefox ESR 52 version and saving the page thru UnMHT which I prefer over MAFF. I have a separate folder on my data drive for all saved MAFF and MHTML files, with sub-folders to categorize that information.

joetux
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As it looks like the developer of the origin MAFF addon to firefox is not willing to continue this valuable project. So it is really a pity to see a really helpful file format -- wchich is easier and much more safe to handle just one file at a time -- is going down.

Maybe someone rethinks ones opinion whether this could be ONE of the File Formats of the mozilla future. This was one of the best file format to save a webpage in one file. 

The other format apeared from KDE on Linux named *.war = web archive. This was available on linux only.
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