Why when I save a website to my hard drive, Firefox saves it as Chrome HTML and then I can't open it?
I go to websites and try to save pages from the website. I had always done this with Internet Explorer but now that I am using firefox and I go to save these pages, it saves them as Chrome HTML and when you click on the saved file it won't open. Says it has no program associated with it to open it.
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Make sure Firefox is your Default browser?
Yup, it is..
I am not using Windows at present, but have not normally had problems, but you need to remember IE is likely to save as proprietary file types, whereas firefox will save as a group of related files. Maybe you are trying to open a single file. Not too familiar with Windows 7 as yet, but I have not noticed it saving web pages as a type Chrome HTML (one of the files will be .html type, and Windows may or may not display the file extension depending partly on your chosen settings)
There will be Firefox extensions available for archiving/saving webpages or parts of them.
Any file or web page that I HAD saved when I was with internet explorer had just an HTML file Type Since changing to Firefox, it changed ALL the file types to Chrome HTML and any new ones I save through FF save as Chrome HTML. My thoughts are Chrome must be hiding somewhere but I can't seem to find it.
More than anything, can I change the file types so I can open them? How do I open them?
Why not have a try at saving this thread as a set of files on your computer, see what you get and whether you can open it from say a folder on your Windows 7 desktop.
Note it will be composed of several files, including for instance those for the avatar/icon that I and Swarnava use.
Try similar in IE. I am sure it will either produce a similar set of files (which could be hidden or not obvious, and may open automatically if you click on the .HTML file) or it will create .MHTML . It will not produce just a single standalone .html file. (Or if you choose to do that you will loose a lot of info)
Did you try to open such a saved web page (Save as: Web page, complete) in Firefox via File > Open File?