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why won't pages saved from page source open as a web page?

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Robert44
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Hello. Using Firefox 42 now. With previous versions of Firefox I could view the page source, then save the page source, it would be a .htm file on my computer, then when I opened the page source in my browser, it would display as a normal web page. Now when I open the saved page source, it opens as html text only. Any way to change this?

Hello. Using Firefox 42 now. With previous versions of Firefox I could view the page source, then save the page source, it would be a .htm file on my computer, then when I opened the page source in my browser, it would display as a normal web page. Now when I open the saved page source, it opens as html text only. Any way to change this?

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cor-el
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Try to save the file as a text file if Firefox shows the page source in a tab.

Current Firefox version open the page source in a Tab (view_source.tab) and saving this page works differently. You get html code as you see it with context highlighting code as you will notice if you check the file in a text editor.

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Robert44
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cor-el said

Try to save the file as a text file if Firefox shows the page source in a tab. Current Firefox version open the page source in a Tab (view_source.tab) and saving this page works differently. You get html code as you see it with context highlighting code as you will notice if you check the file in a text editor.

This helped but not by saving as a txt file. That just gives me html code in a txt file instead of an htm file. What helped was setting the view_source.tab option to false. Now the page source opens in a new window, and when I save it, when I open the saved file in the browser, it appears as a web page (as before). I would not have thought that there would be a difference in the htm files saved via tab or window, (and it seems strange), but anyway, problem solved, thanks.

Iamfreezing
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Why do you save by opening and then save the page source?

I just save any web page by file -> save page as -> web page html only or -> web page complete (Sorry, I run german FF, so I am not sure about correct english menu...)

so it is always saved as .htm/.html file.

I set my FF-config "view_source.editor.path" to notepad++, which I use to retrieve information from the webpage.