Best internet browser for viewing webpages offline

Camino has been my favorite until now

But I'm going to switch back to firefox

as Camino has no way of viewing webpages offline (previously visited).

Useful when away on business and sorting through saved bookmarks etc

I have done a lot of research and only a few browsers have the ability of using the:-
"file" "work offline" preferences

Internet explorer (wouldn't touch with a barge pole)
Netscape (Cumbersome & restrictive)
and Firefox

These are the only 3 browsers that can view pages offline that you have previously visited (correct as of February 2008)

Camino and safari have not got these capabilities

Shame, I liked Camino but i can't go without this tool

 

Yes,

Thank you Clevin, that's correct

Many uses of the offline browser for me. Here's 3:-

1) Network goes down at work/home but you can continue working from the pages that you have just been viewng

2) Mobile on the road searching for open WIFI connections is a thing of the past when all you want is the pages from last nights surfing.

3) urgent call from work and your stuck in early morning traffic (the info was on a webpage visited last night.....auto caching has saved the day)

4) arrive at the hotel and its £5 per hour wifi connection. Yet all the sites you need were visited that day.

an extra one & theres more!!


Remember we are fast becoming a 24 hour anytime, anyplace anywhere society. I'm just wasting an aweful lot of time with camino as it relies totally on an internet connection.

It is so frustrating to have no internet access for a page that you were looking at last night.

Since i made the switch to firefox, everything is just fine, there just when i need it

FINAL NOTE
I personally set the preferences as follows:- Cache memory 2000MB, Lifetime of items in cashe 120 days (4 months)..It works for me!

 

Good one hankster

That made me laugh!

Very dry sense of humour! probably the funniest sense of humour!

 

If you are one of the firefox converted...I am...

after many years of camino and safari (see my first post above) Im now back to firefox.....Well i'm not a convert..I supose i'm a reborn Firefoxer after thinking the "grass was greener over the other side"....... a few years back

anyway:


I just came accross this ad-on for firefox.

It uses thumbnails to visually remember sites visited, making it easy to find a previous webpage.

I have done a few sessions using it

Really good


http://innovation.intuit.com/blog/thumbstrips/