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Did we lose the option to keep local copies of webpages?
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rageAgainstCages crazypeople.online rageAgainstCages@crazypeople.online
Joined: 2025-07-16
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There used to be a feature whereby a bookmarked page could be flagged for offline use. Then when you visit that page, it instantly renders the page regardless of whether you are online. Was that removed?

There is a «File→Work Offline» tickbox, but that’s apparently something different because it gives no way to specify which pages should function offline.

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Zen_Shinobi lemmy.world Zen_Shinobi@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-08-11
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You have to download it iirc. I'll check later tonight when I sit in front of my PC

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The_Donkey piefed.social Ja7sh_The_Donkey@piefed.social
Joined: 2026-01-11
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Auster thebrainbin.org Auster@thebrainbin.org
Joined: 2024-10-28
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Link: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/single-file/

Downside: user needs to keep track of the downloaded files manually.

Unrelated upside: it preserves context better than printing a page to PDF.

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rageAgainstCages crazypeople.online rageAgainstCages@crazypeople.online
Joined: 2025-07-16
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I use SingleFile quite often. But it does not exactly provide the functionality I described.

It would be useful to tag a bookmarked page for offline access. That should simply be a toggle. The bookmark page would then be the UI for organising and controlling the offline content. From there, if I want a page to be organised in my file structure where it would then be reachable by other browsers, it would be useful to SingleFile offline pages while offline.

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