firefox

[Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis]

Yes you can save as text, although the interface is a bit confusing. In 
the Save Page As dialogue, change the name to end in .txt not .html. 
This doesn't change the format, but when you save the file Ubuntu should 
recognize such files as text files. Next tab to the "Browse for other 
folders" toggle button and press it. This opens a load of controls, 
mainly for a selecting where to save your file. But amongst them is a a 
select combobox control for the file format. As you tab through it will 
be read as one of:

1. Web Page, complete

2. Web Page, HTML Only

3. Text Files

4. All Files

You want to change it so that Text Files is selected. I found that 
sometimes when I changed the control it didn't read the new value, but 
pressing Orca Key + Return (to say Where I Am) always revealed the 
current value.

If this proves difficult, there are loads of other ways of accomplishing 
the same thing. e.g.:

1) Select All, then Copy and Paste into GEdit and save the resultant text.

2) Save the webpage to disk as HTML then use a program like html2text to
convert it. (To install that, just sudo apt-get install html2text .)

3) Convert the page to text with an online converter such as
http://cgi.w3.org/cgi-bin/html2txt, then save the result.

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Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis

mike coulombe wrote:
> Hi, I went to save a web page in firefox and didn't see the option to save it as a txt file.
> Is this possible or does firefox only save as html.
> It did say save as, so I would assume different formats are possible. The name was the only thing I saw using the tab that could be changed.
> Mike.
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