Tip #4466 - A Firefox ScrapBook
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Firefox ScrapBook
Have you ever
found a great Web site that you absolutely fell in love with, but
when you go back to visit it again, you get the “404 Page Not
Found” error message? That can be so frustrating! If you recall,
awhile back, I showed you Onfolio
for Internet Explorer, which allows you to easily save Web pages and
text snippets on your hard drive. But what about Firefox? Well, for
all you Firefox users, you need a special Firefox extension called
ScrapBook. It has all the features of Onfolio and
more. Let's check it out!
1.) First, head
on over to the ScrapBook download page here.
Just click the green Install Now button and then
restart Firefox when prompted.
2.) Once Firefox
has reopened, you’re ready to begin using ScrapBook!
3.) Go to a sample
site you’d like to bookmark. Once you’re there, on the
menu, select Capture Page.
4.) When you see a little Capture Completed box,
you'll know that page has been saved to your computer.
5.) Now, go to
a different site, go up to ScrapBook and select Capture Page
As.
6.) You have a couple of options here. You can choose to save the
images, styles and Javascript code on that page or you can choose
whether or not to save any downloadable files on that page.
7.) Finally, you
can pick the depth of links you’d like to save. This is a very
important step! This could be useful if you're reading an article
that has links to other pages. If you had the depth set to 0 (zero),
you wouldn’t be able to read those pages. If it was set to 1,
you’d be able to. However, if it was set to 2, you’d be
able to click links on the second page and so on. Just imagine how
useful that could be. You could save pages when you have an Internet
connection and view them somewhere later without a connection, just
like normal!
8.) After you’ve
selected the different options, click Capture.
Now, I’d
like you to go to the ScrapBook menu and click Show in Sidebar.
You’ll see the pages you’ve captured listed there. Go
ahead and click on one of them.
Now, check out
the toolbar at the bottom of the page. It will look like this:
If you select
some text and select the highlighter button, it will become highlighted.
Selecting the pencil allows you to put little sticky notes all over
the page and the D.O.M. eraser gets rid of unnecessary elements on
the page (just like R.I.P.).
I hope you enjoyed
learning about ScrapBook. Trust me, it can be a real timesaver!
~ Neil Patel
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