Figure B shows how flexible the actual Save operation is. You can organize the copies in as many levels of folders as you wish and then browse them in a Sidebar, which also includes a text search function. It is possible to copy just parts of a page, or different versions of the same whole page in different moments. Saving the content of all your open tabs takes just one click. A dedicated menu in the top bar lets you save the current page, or open the ones you already saved. The ScrapBook user interface ( Figure A) resembles the one for Firefox bookmarks. Its online documentation is very clear, so I will only explain what are, in my opinions, the main pros, cons and useful ways to customize it. The Scrapbook extension for Firefox is a really easy way to make perfect snapshots of Web pages. It’s about preserving something exactly as it was in the moment when you saw it, even if it includes dynamic parts that a PDF can’t reproduce, or the original page disappears from the Web - or you have no Internet access. “Remembering exactly how a Web page looked”, however, is something different from all these services and actions. And, of course, if a page is 100% static and you bookmark it, you can always reload it whenever you are online. Saving as PDF serves a similar purpose, in a completely different way. Online services like InstaPaper or the Evernote Web Clipper do save complete copies for later reading, either on the Web or in corporate intranets. Remembering how Web pages looked like? What do you mean? Can you remember (and sometimes, be able to prove) exactly what a Web page looked like when you found it? This week I will show you one of the simplest ways to solve this problem, and a little known use for it. The World Wide Web is a wonderfully huge, messy, continuously changing place. Marco Fioretti goes over the uses of Firefox's Scrapbook extension and gives you some tips and tricks for how to use it.

Scrapbook: A Firefox extension for personal Web archives and more

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