"File -> Save page as" should default to epub. epub files should be natively rendered by Firefox.

[akincisor]

epub files are essentially zipped html files with associated stylesheets, images etc.

The default behavior of Firefox is to download "webpage, complete" which is an HTML file and a folder with a bunch of other files in it. Other browsers even do something non-standard like mhtml.

I propose that epub is the natural offline format for html files. I propose that Firefox should render them as webpages natively and save to the epub format by default.

[Jon]

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[lnee]

Having different options for save page as would be nice, but you can already open the HTML file downloaded

[akincisor]

Inspired by this thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38727105

It immediately jumped out to me that HTML papers offline should be ePub books. And then I realized that all web pages can benefit from this.

[Fristender]

@akincisorThere's an extension called SingleFile, which saves the current webpage as a single html file, viewable via the browser. I think this is what you're looking for. Or maybe you have other needs?

[mokrates]

I just tested SingleFile and the Amazon Mail service refused to send it to my kindle. "Error".

There weren't even images in there.

[mokrates]

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/saveasebook/

This addon seems to need no cloud service and seems almost as good as "push to kindle" which needs a cloud service and has a quota. But you have to mail it to your kindle yourself. (But if you're at your computer, that probably isn't a problem, I would think)