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Grr, apologies, this doesn't seem to work for gmail, which says the account is unavailable on reloading the saved page. On Wed 27 Sep 2023, at 01:17, Gareth Evans <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Hi Charles, > > If you are using Firefox then Alt+F will bring up the File menu, even > if it isn't normally visible. > > You can then choose > > "Save Page As..." > > This usually has the keyboard shortcut of Ctrl+S, but this may be > overridden by email web application shortcuts. > > Saving the page will result in a .html file and a directory, with names such as: > > Name of Some Page.html (file) > Name of Some Page_files (directory) > > Opening the file ending in .html causes the page to be reconstructed > locally in the browser from the resources saved in the corresponding > directory, which reflects your view at the time of saving. > > You then have a WYSIWYG copy, though "WYSIWYG" in this context refers > to some extent to the way your webmail provider formats things, as well > as features intrinsic to the email. > > Printing or saving this to a PDF may be useful. > > There was a move to make email content dynamic a few years ago and I'm > not sure what happened with that, in terms of adoption, so a saved page > may not necessarily always reproduce the precise original content after > some time. Some providers shunned the idea. By way of background, > please see for example: > > https://www.fastmail.com/blog/email-is-your-electronic-memory/ > https://developers.google.com/gmail/ampemail > https://amp.dev/about/email > > Please let me know if any queries. > > Best wishes, > Gareth > > > On Tue 26 Sep 2023, at 23:22, charles meyer <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >> My esteemed listmates, >> >> This is a very serious. >> >> Normally, in Firefox when I want to take a screenshot of all that I see as >> I scroll down the page I press Ctrl + Shift + K and then type in >> :screenshot --fullpage and it captures WYSIWYG in a PNG on to my hard drive. >> >> I try that with back and forth emails in Gmail but that doesn't work. >> >> If I want to capture all the emails exchanged with a person in a gmail >> account normally I press Reply or Forward I can capture all the back and >> forty. >> >> That doesn't work with this gmail exchange. >> >> I'vde taken to snapping photos wiht my cell phone of each screen as I >> screen down to capture the WYSIWYG. >> >> In Chrome and The Edge I can use that Screen Devouring icon which resembles >> a Pac Man as it bites along the screen from left to right and captures all >> the scrolling down as WYSIWYG but I must use FF in this case. >> >> Is there any Screen Devouring extension for FF? >> >> Thank you for your understanding, nonjudgmental help. >> >> Charles. >> >> Charlotte County Public Library