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I cannot save complete websites with File->save as : website complete

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Only the html code will be saves. A folder with pictures and so on will not be created. The saved website comes up without pictures.

Only the html code will be saves. A folder with pictures and so on will not be created. The saved website comes up without pictures.

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Can you please double check that when saving in the "Save as type" is set to "web page, complete" Not "webpage, HTML only"

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Hello, I make an additional test to save a webpage with pictures with File -> save as type -> web page, complete. No folder with pictures and so on will be created. After that I load the saved webpage with File -> File open xxxx.html. The webpage comes up without pictures.

I save often websites into my filesystem. I have take a look into my filesystem. Between September and October 2018 firefox lost the function to save webpages with pictures.

Now I use firefox quantum version 64.0 (64-Bit) on Linux Mint 19 Cinnamon. Kernel 4.15.0-42-generic. Cinnamon version 3.8.9.

Best regards, J. Thomas

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What your seeing is what would happen cause you don't have access to their file locations for the pictures thus you won't see any pictures. I have no problem with saved web pages doing that limits as you won't see picture or audio or restricted files as they have saved behind a firewall. You can't get those pictures or other files for a reason and that is called Copyright protections. If you want to save them the only other program I know and use is Acrobat Pro that can make a pdf of the site and where the pictures and links are active should I open them in Acrobat. Otherwise if you save and go offline those pics, audio, file links won't work.

Modified by WestEnd

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Images opened (requested) via JavaScript or background images loaded via a CSS file might not be saved in Firefox by using Save Page As. Images loaded directly (i.e. they show in the page source) should be saved in the xxx_files folder. There used to be extensions that would handle this correctly, but I don't know if there is a WebExtension with this feature.