MHTML is short for MIME HTML where browsers like Opera, Internet Explorer allows to save web page and its resources like images, animations, CSS, graphics, Java applets and audio files, etc. into a single file or web archive. MHTML often called as MHT files can be viewed in Firefox browser through an extension unMHT where Google Chrome already added Support for MHTML year back but functionality still not added. At least we can view MHT pages in Current Chrome dev. channel as I can confirm.
At present Chrome lets you save page in either in HTML-only or complete webpage. You can’t save pages in MHTML format which are useful to share with your friends much like to PDFs. Though currently saving page as MHT is feasible through experimental flag offered by Google Chrome in dev. channel.
To Enable Save page as MHTML for Chrome
1. Visit about:flags in browser
2. Scroll down and find Save page as MHTML and click enable button, restart browser for the changes to take effect. If you found its difficult to find that flag, then press Ctrl +F to bring the find bar and type Save page .. in it for Chrome to highlight and show it.
But let me tell you this disables functionality of saving page as complete in HTML only or HTML complete. This feature throws away saving page as html and welcomes MHTML.
Disables saving pages as HTML-only or HTML Complete; enables saving pages only as MHTML: a single text file containing HTML and all sub-resources.
To save page in MHTML format
You can now either right-click on page you want to save and select save as or select save page as from Chrome menu where “Save as type“ selects“All files “, click the save button to save page in MHTML format.
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It’s prefect in the chrome engine of Avant browser. Avant has three options to save webpages: save as(You can choose the type)/save as html/save as text. After I enbaleing the mhtml format, the save as option is assign with mhtml format, and If I want to save html format,I can still use the save as html option. That’s wonderful.
So now I can save in MHTML, but Chrome still can not open MHTML file.
Is Google serious about supporting Chrome browser?
And why did they disable save as html and complete?! (if mhtml turned on/added)
Its still an experimental feature, don’t know natively when Chrome supports it.
is it possible to do the same for firefox????
firefox have not the funtion about://flags
thanks
Try this add-on http://www.unmht.org/unmht/en_index.html
Thanks, very useful tip!
Glad you liked it, welcome to TechDows.
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