scrapbook

Posted Oct 4, 2018 9:15 UTC (Thu) by debacle (subscriber, #7114)
In reply to: scrapbook by pabs
Parent article: Archiving web sites

You are right, Paul, but since some years a lot of my "web workflow" depends on scrapbook. I use scrapbook more than bookmarks, for example. As always, convenience wins over security, and I will use the old firefox until either scrapbookq is in Debian or there is another good solution. I will probably move my firefox usage in some sort of containers though.

scrapbook

Posted Oct 4, 2018 13:50 UTC (Thu) by pabs (subscriber, #43278) [Link] (1 responses)

If you aren't willing to package it yourself and do not want to use the version from the Mozilla add-on site, you could run it from a git checkout using the mechanism I discovered that Mozilla still support. Basically, the extension manifest.json needs a gecko item in it (scrapbookq already has one) and you should create a symlink using the gecko id as the name from the extensions directory to the git repository.

https://bonedaddy.net/pabs3/log/2018/09/08/webextocalypse/
https://github.com/tahama/scrapbookq/blob/master/src/mani...
/usr/share/mozilla/extensions/{ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384}/tahama@163.com -> git repo

scrapbook

Posted Dec 30, 2018 10:45 UTC (Sun) by debacle (subscriber, #7114) [Link]

A very late follow-up, but at least still in the same year:
I briefly tried out the scrapbookq a while ago and it does not seem to be as useful and good as the original XUL based scrapbook.
I'm not even sure, whether it is good enough to have it in Debian at all.
For now, I will stay with Firefox 52.9.0.
Maybe the best solution would be a web server, that can store pages on request.
Completely independent of Firefox, and even compatible with w3m...
It must run on ones own notebook computer for my use case.
Any ideas and code welcome!