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  1. <!DOCTYPE html>
  2. <html>
  3. <head>
  4. <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
  5. <title>SingleFile help</title>
  6. <link rel="stylesheet" href="help.css">
  7. <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width,initial-scale=1">
  8. </head>
  9. <body>
  10. <div>
  11. <div id="titleBorder">
  12. <h2>SingleFile</h2>
  13. <h4>Save a complete page into a single HTML file</h4>
  14. </div>
  15. <span id="index">
  16. <a href="#instructions">Instructions</a> -
  17. <a href="#general-notes">Additional notes</a> -
  18. <a href="#options">Options description</a> -
  19. <a href="#notes">Technical notes</a> -
  20. <a href="#known-issues">Known issues</a> -
  21. <a href="#unknown-issues">Troubleshooting unknown issues</a>
  22. </span>
  23. <hr>
  24. <ol>
  25. <li>
  26. <a id="instructions">Instructions</a>
  27. <ul>
  28. <li>Wait until the page is fully loaded, you may need to scroll down the entire page to be sure all elements are loaded.</li>
  29. <li>Click on the SingleFile button
  30. <img src="../resources/icon_16.png" class="icon"> in the extension toolbar to save the page.</li>
  31. </ul>
  32. </li>
  33. <li>
  34. <a id="general-notes">Additional notes</a>
  35. <ul>
  36. <li>Right-click on the SingleFile button and select "Options" to open the options page.</li>
  37. <li>To save multiple tabs, select them first and click on the SingleFile button
  38. <img src="../resources/icon_16.png" class="icon">.</li>
  39. <li>Use the context menu to save a tab, a selected content, a frame content, unpinned tabs, selected tabs, or all tabs.
  40. The context menu also allows activating automatic page saving of a tab, unpinned tabs, or all tabs.</li>
  41. <li>With auto-save active, pages will be automatically saved every time after being loaded. The period of time to wait before
  42. saving the page can be configured in the options page.</li>
  43. </ul>
  44. </li>
  45. <li>
  46. <a id="options">Options description</a>
  47. <p>You can customize SingleFile through the options page. Right-click on SingleFile button
  48. <img src="../resources/icon_16.png" class="icon"> in the browser toolbar and select "Options"/"Manage extension" in the context menu to open the options page.</p>
  49. <p>Option details :</p>
  50. <ul>
  51. <li>
  52. <span class="option">add entry in the context menu</span>
  53. <p>Check this option to display an entry in the context menu of the webpage to save the entire page or the selected part.
  54. </p>
  55. <p class="notice">It is recommended to
  56. <u>check</u> this option</p>
  57. </li>
  58. <li>
  59. <span class="option">overlay a shadow on the page during processing</span>
  60. <p>Check this option to overlay a shadow on the page when SingleFile is retrieving page resources. This reminds you that
  61. you should not close the tab.
  62. </p>
  63. <p class="notice">It is recommended to
  64. <u>check</u> this option</p>
  65. </li>
  66. <li>
  67. <span class="option">display an infobar when viewing archives</span>
  68. <p>Check this option to display the ❔ button at the top right of the page when viewing a saved page. By clicking this
  69. icon, you can get more information about the saved date and open the original URL.
  70. </p>
  71. <p class="notice">It is recommended to
  72. <u>check</u> this option</p>
  73. </li>
  74. <li>
  75. <span class="option">append the save date to the file name</span>
  76. <p>Check this option to append the save date of the webpage to the file name.
  77. </p>
  78. <p class="notice">It is recommended to
  79. <u>check</u> this option</p>
  80. </li>
  81. <li>
  82. <span class="option">enter file name before saving the page</span>
  83. <p>Check this option to display a prompt asking you to enter the file name of the saved page.
  84. </p>
  85. <p class="notice">It is recommended to
  86. <u>uncheck</u> this option</p>
  87. </li>
  88. <li>
  89. <span class="option">compress HTML</span>
  90. <p>Check this option to remove all HTML comments, and unneeded spaces or returns. This helps to reduce the size of the
  91. file without altering the document.</p>
  92. <p class="notice">It is recommended to
  93. <u>check</u> this option</p>
  94. </li>
  95. <li>
  96. <span class="option">remove HTML import</span>
  97. <p>Check this option to remove all link elements used to import HTML documents. This can reduce the size of the file without
  98. altering the document most of the time.</p>
  99. <p class="notice">It is recommended to
  100. <u>check</u> this option</p>
  101. </li>
  102. <li>
  103. <span class="option">remove frames</span>
  104. <p>Check this option to remove all frame and iframe elements. This can considerably reduce the size of the file without
  105. altering the document most of the time.</p>
  106. <p class="notice">It is recommended to
  107. <u>check</u> this option</p>
  108. </li>
  109. <li>
  110. <span class="option">remove hidden elements</span>
  111. <p>Check this option to remove all hidden elements. This option can considerably reduce the size of the file without altering
  112. the document most of the time.</p>
  113. <p class="notice">It is recommended to
  114. <u>check</u> this option</p>
  115. </li>
  116. <li>
  117. <span class="option">save raw page</span>
  118. <p>Check this option to save the page without interpreting JavaScript. Checking this option may alter the document.</p>
  119. <p class="notice">It is recommended to
  120. <u>uncheck</u> this option</p>
  121. </li>
  122. <li>
  123. <span class="option">remove scripts</span>
  124. <p>Check this option to remove all scripts. Unchecking this option may alter the document.</p>
  125. <p class="notice">It is recommended to
  126. <u>check</u> this option</p>
  127. </li>
  128. <li>
  129. <span class="option">remove video sources</span>
  130. <p>Check this option to empty the "src" attribute of all video elements.</p>
  131. <p class="notice">It is recommended to
  132. <u>check</u> this option</p>
  133. </li>
  134. <li>
  135. <span class="option">remove audio sources</span>
  136. <p>Check this option to empty the "src" attribute of all audio elements.</p>
  137. <p class="notice">It is recommended to
  138. <u>check</u> this option</p>
  139. </li>
  140. <li>
  141. <span class="option">compress CSS</span>
  142. <p>Check this option to minify CSS stylesheets. This helps to reduce the size of the file without altering the document.</p>
  143. <p class="notice">It is recommended to
  144. <u>check</u> this option</p>
  145. </li>
  146. <li>
  147. <span class="option">remove unused CSS rules</span>
  148. <p>Check this option to remove all CSS rules that do not match any element. Checking this this option should not alter
  149. the document and can considerably reduce the size of the file.</p>
  150. <p class="notice">It is recommended to
  151. <u>check</u> this option</p>
  152. </li>
  153. <li>
  154. <span class="option">save lazy loaded images</span>
  155. <p>Check this option to save all the lazy loaded images that are not displayed. This may help to save all the images without
  156. scrolling the page. This feature is not guaranteed to work on all sites.</p>
  157. <p class="notice">It is recommended to
  158. <u>check</u> this option</p>
  159. </li>
  160. <li>
  161. <span class="option">set a maximum size for embedded resources (Mb)</span>
  162. <p>Specify the maximum size of embedded resources (i.e. images, stylesheets, scripts and iframes) in megabytes.
  163. </p>
  164. </li>
  165. <li>
  166. <span class="option">auto-save on page unload</span>
  167. <p>Check this option to auto-save the page when it is unloaded instead of saving the page after it is loaded.</p>
  168. </li>
  169. <li>
  170. <span class="option">auto-save wait delay after load (sec.)</span>
  171. <p>Specify the time to wait in seconds before saving a page after it is loaded.
  172. </p>
  173. </li>
  174. <li>
  175. <span class="option">save pages in background</span>
  176. <p>Uncheck this option if you get invalid file names like "37bec68b-446a-46a5-8642-19a89c231b46.html" when saving pages.
  177. </p>
  178. <p class="notice">It is recommended to
  179. <u>check</u> this option</p>
  180. </li>
  181. <li>
  182. <span class="option">display stats in the console after processing</span>
  183. <p>Check this option to display stats about processing in the JavaScript developer tools of your browser. Checking this
  184. option may increase the time needed to process a page.
  185. </p>
  186. <p class="notice">It is recommended to
  187. <u>uncheck</u> this option</p>
  188. </li>
  189. <li>
  190. <span class="option">Reset to default options</span>
  191. <p>Reset all the options to their default value.</p>
  192. </li>
  193. </ul>
  194. </li>
  195. <li>
  196. <a id="notes">Technical notes</a>
  197. <ul>
  198. <li>All images are converted into
  199. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base64">base64</a>.
  200. </li>
  201. <li>All resources except frame contents are injected in the document using
  202. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_URI_scheme">data URI scheme</a>.
  203. </li>
  204. <li>Frame contents are injected as text in the document by using the srcdoc attribute.
  205. </li>
  206. </ul>
  207. </li>
  208. <li>
  209. <a id="known-issues">Known issues</a>
  210. <ul>
  211. <li>
  212. All browsers
  213. <ul>
  214. <li>After installing the extension, if you want to save a tab that was already opened then you need to refresh it first.
  215. </li>
  216. <li>For security reasons, you cannot save pages hosted on https://chrome.google.com or https://addons.mozilla.org.</li>
  217. <li>Frame contents cannot be saved when "auto-save on page unload" option is checked.</li>
  218. </ul>
  219. </li>
  220. <li>
  221. Chrome/Opera
  222. <ul>
  223. <li>You must enable the option "Allow access to file URLs" in the extension page to display the infobar when viewing a
  224. saved page, or to save a page stored on the filesystem.</li>
  225. <li>If saved pages have file names like "4e5a13fd-6638-4a37-a34b-a3c104ac66b1" instead of the title then it means another
  226. extension is conflicting with SingleFile. You can uncheck the option "save pages in background" to circumvent this
  227. issue.
  228. </li>
  229. </ul>
  230. </li>
  231. <li>
  232. Firefox
  233. <ul>
  234. <li>You cannot save selected tabs via the context menu because it is not possible to select multiple tabs.</li>
  235. </ul>
  236. </li>
  237. <li>
  238. Edge
  239. <ul>
  240. <li>The file name looks like "4e5a13fd-6638-4a37-a34b-a3c104ac66b1".</li>
  241. </ul>
  242. </li>
  243. </ul>
  244. </li>
  245. <li>
  246. <a id="unknown-issues">Troubleshooting unknown issues</a>
  247. <p>Please follow these steps if you find an unknown issue:</p>
  248. <ul>
  249. <li>Reset SingleFile options.</li>
  250. <li>If resetting options did not fix the issue, try to disable all other extensions to see if there is a conflict.</li>
  251. <li>If there is a conflict then try to determine against which extension(s).</li>
  252. <li>Please report the issue
  253. <a href="https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile/issues">here</a> with a short description describing how to reproduce the issue, Browser version, OS name and version.</li>
  254. </ul>
  255. <p>Suggestions are welcome :)</p>
  256. </li>
  257. </ol>
  258. </div>
  259. </body>
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