The easiest way to save a page is to use the shortcut Ctrl-s, but even with that shortcut, it involves lots of tab switching and shortcut activating.

SaveAll is a new Firefox add-on that adds on option to save all web pages that are currently open in tabs in the browser. You’ll still get the save page dialog window, but do not have to activate the process in every open tab individually.

The add-on adds a Save All Tabs As option to the File menu of the web browser. If you run the option, you’ll get save page as dialog windows for each open tab.

Firefox’s default behavior is to use the file name of the page, and not the page title as the file name for the downloaded HTML file. This can be problematic if a website uses no file names or only generic file names, as you will get quite a few duplicate name errors in this case. There is unfortunately no option to change this behavior.

Users who prefer keyboard shortcuts can use the shortcut Ctrl-Alt-S to save all open tabs in the Firefox web browser.

The web pages are saved in the standard format on the local hard drive. This includes a HTM page in the root destination folder, and a folder with images and other page elements. Not very handy.

An alternative is the Firefox add-on UnMHT which comes with several improvements compared to SaveAll. The add-on can save one or multiple Firefox tabs in the MHT format. The biggest advantage of this format is that it includes all files of a page in one file on the local hard drive. It is even possible to save multiple web pages into one MHT file. The add-on can display MHT files in the browser as well.

Taboo is an add-on for the Firefox web browser that helps the user at least with the first problem and to some extent with the second as well. It places buttons in the main navigational toolbar of Firefox that can be pressed to save the active page. Saving a page records the current position of the page. A second button can be used to access those saved pages by various means to continue the article at the exact same position it was saved.

Various display modes can be selected to view the saved tabs. The default mode shows the tabs as small thumbnails on the screen. Hovering the mouse over a thumbnail will display a larger screenshot of the saved page. Other display modes include a calendar mode which will display a calendar and the amount of tabs saved on various days in the month. Then there is a detailed mode with the option to add notes to saved tabs and a trashcan for deleted tabs.

Another interesting option of the add-on is the ability to save and load saved tabs. Great for users who work with multiple computers and those that want to share tabs with other users. The second button displays a search option and thumbnails of the last saved tabs as well if the user presses the small down icon next to the button.

The add-on is well thought out and provides some interesting features that are interesting for power users and researchers.