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If you're not on a high speed connection to the Internet, you may want to have a way to download web sites to your hard drive to surf through while you are offline. There are quite a few of these, but being a Ubuntu Linux user, my favorite is Wget which can download http, https, and ftp sites for offline use. Wget is installed by default in Ubuntu, and I use it with a script to keep track of whether or not my web sites are up and running. Here is the official Wget manual. Wget runs from a command line interface, can resume interrupted downloads, and detect changed pages to update your mirror of the site. Wget is free open source software. HTTrack web site copier This is another program which can copy web sites for you. It comes in Windows and Linux versions. This one can also resume interrupted downloads. HTTrack can also update your mirrored sites with changed pages. HTTrack is free open source software. Backstreet Browser This is a free Windows only web site downloader that includes a web browser which can browse files which it has downloaded and zipped to save space. You can also download the sites without zipping them, and use your default browser to view the pages. It supports resuming interrupted downloads, and updating changed pages. PageNest Free Offline Browser This offline browser supports the usual features mentioned above and offers a free, and a commercial version. The free version includes "Daily Deals" which are ads served to you while using it. It's Windows software only, sorry Linux users, no adware for you. 8-) Offline Browsers This page on Seasoft is the start of several pages of links to reviews and downloads of Free Trial Version offline browsers in case you want to try one that you will have to pay for to get all of the features. Internet Explorer will save individual pages into an .mht file format which is a standalone page with all of the images and things inside it. This is handy if you just want to save one or two pages. You can still extract images from the .mht pages by right clicking and selecting "Save Image As". The only drawback is that not many other browsers will load the Internet Explorer generated .mht files. Firefox will save individual pages with all of their elements intact, but creates a new folder to put the individual page elements into. It's ok to save a page now and then, but will quickly build up too many folders storing page elements. Like
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