Previous posts on the Firefox extension
ScrapBook:
I've sometimes wanted to download all the images on a page, but
since
wget, the utility
I'm most familiar with for command line http and ftp file
retrieval, doesn't support wildcards in http, I never had a way to
grab and organize all images easily. I'm using ScrapBook to do just
that, grabbing the 259 or so line art images at
Line
art.
Firefox 1.0.4 segfaulted part way through the capture, and I notice
that when I restarted Firefox, the ScrapBook capture did not
resume.
While it isn't the Unix concept of creating new tools and solving
complicated problems by combining existing small tools, it
works.
Firefox segfaulted when I was capturing the images and opened a new
tab for a google search: when I typed the search term in the google
toolbar and tapped < enter >, my multiple windows and
multiple tabs disappeared. The
SessionSaver extension brought my window and tabs back to their
state when it segfaulted.
Very useful.